This Sounds Like A Great Program

Can teaching rebellious teenage girls how to become old-school “ladies” save them from a cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty?

This is a program that teaches at risk teen females self-respect and decision making through manners and deportment. I think this is a great idea, and it should also be implemented for young men. Good manners and self discipline are required to be successful in the USA. As to the scholars who say that teaching these behaviors emphasizes one culture over another, I have a few things to say. One, good manners used to be a part of the African American culture in the USA. But, some people started calling that degrading names. Also, not looking people in the eye was expected of minorities and the poor before the civil rights movement. When people try to denigrate teaching the disadvantaged the social and cultural skills to successful, I want to ask them why they are trying to hold these people back. I am little tired of people trying to pass him self-destructive behaviors as cultural behaviors that need to be maintained. If it is a behavior that harms people (whther themselves or others), it should not be protected or encouraged.  In some cultures slavery and mutilation of women is acceptable behavior, but it is not right.