The price exacted by a free society is the development of a citizenry which is both knowledgeable and participatory in its governmental, legal, economic, social, and political systems. The School District of Owen-Withee has a responsibility to educate students for work. Individuals differ greatly in their talents and motivations. Our devotion to equality asserts that all students should be enabled to develop to the fullest, in their own style and to their own limit. Each is worthy of respect as a human being.
Diverse programs exist within the school to address the uniqueness of the individuals within it.
Each student deserves an educational program that is accorded respect and stature. Excellence, then, is not static, but becomes a continuum of individual efforts in comparison to individual capabilities. The basic goals of our system are to prepare all young people, whatever their talents, to achieve individual fulfillment, and to nurture the development of free, rational, and responsible men and women, who understand that their personal effectiveness in our complex and global society depends upon their ability to think. Therefore, in order to educate all students for life in this interrelated trilogy of education for citizenship, for work, and for human development, the School District of Owen-Withee accepts the challenge of providing each student with the fundamental academic skills which will enable each to function successfully as literate citizens in tomorrow's society, and that among these skills are included basic competencies in reading, writing, speaking, listening, calculating, vocational education, the fine arts, principles of good health and hygiene, fitness, discerning right and wrong, acquiring a sense of beauty and culture, and developing a consciousness of consequence in making decisions. This mission statement was formally adopted as School Board Policy AD, by the Owen-Withee Board of Education, on January 11, 1988.