Achievement against high academic standards are viewed primarily as essential to a strong, competitive economy. Various assessment approaches are interwoven, and significant decisions affecting a student s place in the school community are based on an accumulation of evidence from a multitude of assessment sources. Children are measured primarily for their progress against other students. Discipline is a fair, effective, and impartial tool for achieving an environment conducive to learning. Discipline is a tool for removing unwanted children from school.
Schools are well maintained and in good repair.
Schools are designed expediently by state architects without consultation of the community, and serve the sole purpose of daytime classroom instruction on a half-time basis. They are built of cheapest materials from standardized plans, are kept in minimal repair and remodeling is discouraged. State aid for school construction is available on a need basis. State aid for school construction is often an inducement to close community schools. Distance learning systems are used to increase interaction between and among local places, to expose people to new ways of understanding and learning, and to extend special courses to small populations of students.