Wyatt Andrews reports. Etiquette is the special code of behavior required in social relations - and to many Americans those conventions seem to belong to era long past. Wyatt Andrews investigated for Friday's Early Show . Anyone who thinks manners are dead in America, should watch what's happening in schools and private clubs all over the country.
Manners are back.
In overwhelming numbers parents are signing up their grade school and high school children for lessons on how to do just about everything just so. Cathleen Hanson and Carol Haislip own a manners school in Baltimore, Md., called the International School of Protocol. These days they are on the road, six days a week, in schools, homes and clubs, trying to satisfy what they believe is a new cultural craving for civility. In inner city Baltimore a program called Pauls Place has also hired Cathleen Hanson. And scores of kids, take lessons in what makes courtly cool.