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It's now been several weeks since starting my teaching career officially. While the experience has had just about a million and one stories and personal growth factors, far too many to be named in this meager medium with the right amount of description, one thing that is certainly different since my day is this aspect of Character Building. With the kindergarteners it's easy, since there is a great amount of Social Vocabulary and Life Skills which are to be built with kids that young. Upon chatting with the kindergarten teachers about exactly what they do in the first few weeks or days, their primary concern with kids that young is to teach them social skills. Here we watch cartoon videos who are performing basic interactions of greetings, handshakes and saying "Nice to meet you. My name is Bob." From there, I always assumed that the basic interactions would be said and done with. Not true. From first until eleventh grade (as the place whe...