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We believe that the Board is responsible to the people and, therefore, should attempt to reflect the opinion of the community; however, Board members must look to the future more clearly than is required of the average citizen. The results of many of the decisions and actions of the Board will not be realized at once but will set the course of education for future years.
The Board has established broad principles upon which it formulates its policies for the operation of the schools under its jurisdiction. These principles and beliefs are as follows.:
1. The main objective of the Board is to provide all students the best educational opportunities within available resources.
2. Education opportunities must be provided for all the students of the School System, regardless of race, creed, sex, age, national origin, or ethnic group.
3. Educational offerings must be provided for the varying abilities and needs of the students.
4. Education must be concerned with the life needs of the students. It must contribute to their growth which includes physical, mental, social, and vocational development.
5. Public education is obligated to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of wholesome facets of American life.
6. Our children should be trained or educated to perform the following:
- Master all basic skills of The Alabama Competency Examination
- Possess inquiring minds
- Speak their language clearly
- Read efficiently
- Write effectively
- Solve number problems
- Listen and observe skillfully
- Understand the basic facts of health
- Participate in wholesome sports and recreational activities
- Appreciate beauty
- Give responsible direction to their lives
- Put human relationships on a high plane
- Enjoy a rich, sincere, and varied social life
- Work and play well with others
- Observe the rules of good social behavior
- Appreciate the family and contribute to its welfare
- Conserve family ideals
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- Maintain democratic family relationships
- Know the satisfaction of good workmanship
- Maintain and improve economic efficiency
- Know what they should and can afford to buy and know what they should not or cannot afford to buy
- Respect honest differences of opinion
- Possess a high regard for the nation’s resources
- Respect our laws
- Be loyal to democratic ideas
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LEGAL REF.: 20 U.S.C. 1401-1413, 10 U.S.C. 1681-1686, 42 U.S.C. 2000c-1 to –9, 42 U.S.C. 2000D-1 to –6.