EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY 110

Wautoma Area School District
Approved 11/23/99

The Wautoma Area School District Board of Education subscribes to the thesis that our
educational aspirations for our young have made us free and it is the intention of the Board to help perpetuate that freedom by providing the best education possible for our children.

The purpose of public school education is to develop individuals who, in a world full of tremendous scientific progress, can show basic training in desirable moral, ethical, and spiritual beliefs, as well as, the more academic preparations which helps to complete the picture of a competent individual who is prepared to assume a role of shaping the future of our nation.

It is understood that though all children will not learn all things equally well, all should have an equal opportunity in the pursuit of educational qualifications for the world ahead and the Board of Education will attempt to balance its program to provide for the varied interests of all pupils.
Attempts at such balance will keep in mind the fact that the quality of a program deserves as much consideration as quantity and attempts at balance must be restricted by the quality of criterion. The Board accepts the promise that the center of the school curriculum is the child and that the instructional program should be tailored to fit a child development pattern of education.

The Board of Education accepts the conclusion that the education of children is a comprehensive program, which must be undertaken in cooperation with other institutions of our society and will seek to establish and maintain strong ties with parents and community programs.

Cross Reference: 411-Equal Education Opportunities