Character development starts with the family, of course, but schools and communities can help.
It is a community-based effort to support the efforts of the family. A District 25 steering committee has been working on a volunteer basis. Schools can promote the six pillars of character by integrating them into new and existing programs and by encouraging students and parents to model them. By encouraging the people who have contact with children to model and reinforce the six pillars of character, children should be better equipped to make ethical decisions now and later in life. It does not bring religion into the classroom.