Our horizons must extend beyond the local community - to the state, the nation, and the world. Education is essential to the vitality of our national life. The vigor of our free institutions depends upon educated men and women at every level of society. 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.