The purpose of the Life Skills program is to encourage students to take responsibility for their actions, to familiarize them with good character traits, to introduce them to role models, and to help develop good citizens with high moral values.

The United States Congress, recognizing the importance of this concept, authorized the Partnerships in Character Education Program in 1994. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 renews and re-emphasizes this tradition, and substantially expands support for it. The family is the most important place for character and moral education, but the public schools are partners with the family. We share, as public school educators, the responsibility to reinforce the shaping of moral behavior that families are trying to encourage.

The Life Skills course offered at Pacific Technology School is one hour per week in each grade of middle school. The objective of the Life Skills Class is to encourage students to take responsibility for their actions, to familiarize them with good character traits, to introduce them to role models, and to help develop good citizens with high moral values.

Parents are regularly informed about the topics in Thursday Packets to ensure that they also be involved in our effort to inspire positive principles of conduct in our future leaders. Each month, a character trait (i.e., honesty, responsibility, respect, and integrity) is announced. Some other traits will also be included for student participation throughout the entire year, in order for students to be frequently reminded of these values and be given the opportunity to make connections between various concepts.

The curriculum for the Life Skills program at Pacific Technology School is built by using widely-used and approved resource guides.