Are good manners and proper etiquette a lost art? Perhaps, but a Bay area school is looking to change that.

  • Starkey 5th graders kick bad habits with etiquette class
  • Students learn manners, proper etiquette

Starkey Elementary School is kicking bad habits with an etiquette class.

Fifth graders get a four course meal and learn everything from buttering a roll to twirling spaghetti.

Kitchen Manager Denise Gerard set it all up to celebrate the lost art form, proper etiquette.

“You watch some of these students eat and you say, they need some help, so I thought I’d help them along a little bit,” Gerard said.

After a school year full of manners, those lessons have already come in handy at home. One parent said they were scolded about it.

“If you slouch, he tells me to sit up straight. He tells me your fork goes on this side. And I think it’s kind of cool,” said parent Stephanie Laney.

The manners and proper etiquette they learn will last them a lifetime.

The kitchen manager said she doesn’t get paid to teach etiquette and in fact, received donations and used her own money to help put on the banquette for the fifth graders.