The Seven Deadly Character Development Sins Every Student Must avoid To reach their goals.

This coming school year many students will step on a school campus excited to learn, discover and be taught the needed skills to pass a state standardized test. Most willdo well on the test but fail in the test of life.



“This is a tragedy,” says Jamahl Keyes, student leadership trainer, Character development expert and top selling author. “It doesn’t matter how good a student does on a math, science or language arts test, if they do not have Character Development skills, they're not going tobe successful.”



Here arethe seven deadly Character Development sins every student must know to be successful:



Not being Trustworthy as a student, every student must knowthat trust worthiness is a Character Development trait that will open doors for them.



Not respecting yourself and other students, show me a student that doesn’t respect themselves, I’ll show you a student that doesn’t discover how torespect others.



Not Taking Responsibility as a student, we live in asociety where students and adults don’t assume responsibilityfor their actions.

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  Not Caring for yourself and for other students in your class.


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  Not seeking and searchingto become agood citizen.


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  Not Pursuing excellence and pushing beingand do the best that can be done.


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  Not Demonstrating integrity regardless of whatsituation comes up.

Jamahl Keyes student leadership trainer, Character Development expert and top selling author, assists thousands of at-risk students learn the needed character development skills to be successful in collegeand corporate America. He’s been a middle schoolteacher for 8 a number ofa violence prevention coordinator for Four yearsand has been a featured youth speaker and Teacher Professional Development trainer in every state.