THE FOURTH GRADE CERTIFICATE OF HUMAN DECENCY

THE FOURTH GRADE CERTIFICATE OF HUMAN DECENCY

Your Fourth Grade Certificate of Human Decency: In the fourth grade everyone is supposed to learn what it means to be a decent human being. 

No matter how much education, training, and experience a person may have; they can never graduate to Certified Official Adulthood without passing their Fourth Grade Certificate Examination.

No citizen should serve in public office, at any level, without said certification.

The student will not earn their Life Certification without mastering the following areas of decent behavior.

The standards of human decency include, but are not exhausted by, the following principles of life:

1.   Tell the truth, not just for your own good but for the good of others.

2.   Don't expect everyone to do things your way.

3.   Be a good sport: as a gracious winner and a cheerful loser.

4.   Be a team player. This is also good citizenship.

5.   Stop arguments and rivalries and fights.

6.   Help others and encourage them.

7.   Include the kids on the sidelines to get them to join in the game.

8.   Never try to get someone put out of the game.

9.   Never make fun of other people or mock them. Never call anyone names.

10. Always take (and show) a real interest in others.

(Editor’s Note: In Political Life: Reagan was pretty good at the 4th grade test. The Bushes were excellent, especially when Barbara was watching.)