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Character building is important work within the life of the school. Character is not a religion; it transcends, gender, nationality, and age, because it is linked to the conscience. The conscience is the soul’s voice of warning system. The conscience holds all of us accountable to the highest standard we have been taught about right and wrong.
The conscience can be desensitized through media programs showing lots of violence. Desensitizing the heart of a child can take place through continually killing small human beings on a video game. The entertainment industry is guilty of destroying the lives of children. However, parents are equally held responsible for allowing children to spend time with such instruments.
May we, with great respect, ask you to turn the TV AND VIDEO GAMES OFF! Children will not get the positive impact of Tabernacle if they are distracted by the media and addicted to video games.
We send children to the office for being good! This is just the opposite of what most schools do. We want the emphasis to be on goodness. We love catching children being good. We love sending them to the office, and they get greeted with incredible enthusiasm. We take their picture, put it on the Character Wall, and send a postcard home to you. Great Joy! If it is a young child, they are invited to get a toy out of the treasure chest.
The following explains our character traits: Responsible, respectful, compassionate, cooperative and courageous. Children are sent to the office on the basis of exhibiting any one of these character expressions.
Responsible Luke 16:10 ~ I Corinthians 13:6-7 ~ James 3:13-14 ~ Ephesians 6:2
Expressing Love - Towards God and your neighbor
Industrious - Getting your work done
Truthful - Honest, and conscientious
Productive - Tangible results from your work
Reliable - Dependable and trustworthy
Self - disciplined - Keeping the rules and doing the right thing
Determined - Exerting personal effort to complete the task
Persistent - Nothing stops you from doing the right thing
Ambitious - Having initiative and willingness to do the work to be successful
Wise - Showing good judgment and making good choices
Servant hood - serving others throughout your lifetime
Resistance - Resist evil and those who entice you to do the wrong thing
Respectful Ephesians 4:2 ~ Ephesians 6:1-3 ~ I Corinthians 13:4-5 ~ Matthew 22:37
Thinking like Jesus - Put Him first in your thoughts
Polite - Well mannered and honoring in your attitude
Obedient - Submitting to your authority
Leadership - Being an example for other students
Accepting - Treat others as you would want to be treated
Quiet - Knowing when not to talk and make noise
Rule Keeping - Great attitude towards the rules knowing they are meant for good
Encouraging - Working to build the life of someone else
Admission - Owning up to wrong, and accepting the logical consequences
Honoring - Respectful towards your parents and teachers
Compassionate Luke 15:20 ~ Hebrews 5:2 ~ Matthew 10:42 ~ Matthew 11:28-30
What you do expresses Jesus
Caring - Kind and considerate
Gentle - Gracious and loving
Empathy - Being aware and sensitive to the experience of another and fully communicating explicitly your compassion for them.
Understanding – Sympathetic
Discrete - Prudent silence; not gossiping about what you know
Attentive - Mindful and observant
Friendly - Warm and accepting
Forgiving - Allowing room for error and weakness. Showing mercy
Passionate - Expressing intense feelings about those in need.
Selfless - Sacrifice to help others
Cooperative I Samuel 15:22 ~ Hebrews 5:8 ~ Luke 16:10 ~ Proverbs 2:1-5
Your actions express Jesus
Obedient - Follow instructions carefully
Attentive - Paying attention
Flexible - Agreeable and adaptable
Peaceful - Calm and untroubled
Fair - Impartial, objective, and reasonable
Joyful - Happy and contended in all circumstances
Thankful - gratitude and appreciation
Positive - Accepting and affirming to everyone
Faithful - Loyal and steadfast
Patient - Bearing difficult things calmly without complaining
Courageous Daniel 6:16-23 ~ I Corinthians 13 ~ Matthew 16:24-26 ~ Hebrews 11:6
Determined - To know Jesus and make Him known
Loving - Providing for those in need, and protecting those who are disenfranchised
Receptive - Very teachable
Disciplined - Doing right thing
Thinking Skills - Understand logical consequences for every choice made
Vigilant - Watchful about personal behavior
Thoughtful - Able to discern appropriate friendships
Brave - Willing to stand alone for his/her convictions
Decisive - Able to make good choices quickly
Trustworthy - Very dependable
Controlled - Able to keep his/her spirit under control
Reliable - Follows through on commitments
Focused - Willingly follows Jesus and obeys Him
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