With a reduction of counseling positions, it is becoming increasingly difficult for schools to maintain high quality character education programs. Frankly, faced with reductions in overall campus staff, increased demands on our cl***room teachers, and reduced funding to purchase character materials - there often isn’t the manpower and/or available finances to keep a consistently strong character education program up and running. Yet, despite the problems besieging them, many of our school principals around the nation refuse to give up on developing strong school wide character programs as they simply reject the notion that SpongeBob Squarepants, Hannah Montana, iCarly, or even Yu-Gi-Oh can do a better job!