No Dad at Home – Teacher creates “Gentleman’s Club” to teach life lessons to boys

A South Carolina teacher is going above and beyond to help young boys in his community become young gentlemen.

Every Wednesday nearly 60 students at Memminger Elementary School dress for success and meet for the “Gentlemen’s Club.”

Raymond Nelson is the student support specialist at Memminger Elementary in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He works with at-risk children and over winter break thought of an idea to teach his students life lessons.

“I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success,” Nelson said to WCSC-TV. “When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tuxedo?”

Nelson started The Gentlemen’s Club. Their motto is: “Look good, feel good, do good.”

Every Wednesday, dozens of first through fifth graders walk into class in their Sunday’s best.

“I know a lot of them struggle because a lot of them don’t have men at home, so I just want them to grow up and think of the things that I teach them,” Nelson said. “They like the reaction of walking up to classrooms and say, ‘Oh, you look so nice and handsome,’ they just love it.”

Each week they discuss a new topic like how to shake hands, make eye contact, open doors and address their elders.

By Magically News