Your Extension staff has pledged ourselves to deliver character education throughout Comal County. With the support of our Commissioner's Court, Frost Bank, and the New Braunfels rotary Club, we have been able to incorporate lessons into our 4-H program at Oak Run School and at Rahe Primary. Our goal is to offer this program to all schools in the County. Character education is not hereditary and does not develop automatically. We have many wonderful kids, but many young people also have problems, often because they don't have adequate adult role models in their lives.
Character education involves everyone.
On a daily basis, each of us models character for the children and youth around us. We model character when we drive, when we greet one another, in our dealings on the phone and in the TV shows we choose to watch. A promise made is a debt unpaid. This quote by Robert Service is a reminder to us all that when we make a promise to someone, they trust us to follow through with it. Trustworthiness is the first pillar in the Six Pillars of Positive Character Development.