Citizens Training Handbook-Manual De Formacion Ciudadana Discipline-Moral-Covism-Urbanity

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Chapter topics are highly practical, including such things as good table manners, the art of conversation, social functions preparations, questions of etiquette, the family & the home, civic morals, character, love, sex education, abortion, prayer in the schools, the danger of drugs, school uniforms, politics, among 57 topics. It is bilingual, Spanish/English. And Perez speaks from years of experience. Since the early 1970s, Perez has directed the "Lincoln-Marti Schools & Day Care Centers" in Miami, Florida. He is also president of the Bilingual Private Schools Association (BIPRISA), director of a weekly tabloid, host of a radio & television talk show & a former elected commissioner & vice-mayor of Miami. Perez believes Citizens Training Handbook, with its emphasis on morality & values, will fill a void in today's school curricula. He writes out of concern for what he sees as a moral crisis in our schools & society in general. In a telling example, he cites a study, which listed the seven major problems in schools during the 1940s as: talking out loud, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, cutting into lines, dress code violations, & littering. In contrast, during the 1980s were: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, suicide, rape, theft & assault.