VCS Protocol Program

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Each year the high school students participate in the Valor Protocol program in which we teach the importance of manners and deference. After teaching classes on proper dress, the art of conversation, table etiquette, and more, we create an enjoyable social event in which the students can practice and become comfortable with what they have learned.

Philosophy

We believe that our conduct, including attire and social behavior is an outward expression of the heart and comprises a portion of a given culture. We seek to intentionally teach and train our students to approach attire and social behavior as means by which to bless and serve others. While it is true that many of these skills transfer over into many domains, such as business or high-social-class events, those are not the goals for this program. Instead, we seek to utilize these skills in our local community, in the people we live with and interact with every day - our families, schools, churches and communities. It is these people God has given us to love and serve, and this program is meant to equip us to do so.

In this program we seek to instill the Biblical and natural-law meaning of different styles of attire, social customs and behaviors - rejecting all forms of relativism, while acknowledging the varying expressions of objective truths across cultures. The students should clearly understand the ‘why’ just as much as the ‘how’, and should be able to identify themselves with the culture we are shaping in and through them, as part of their rich and valuable inheritance. Students should see the immediate applicability of the skills they learn in daily life in settings such as: