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104 DISTRICT PHILOSOPHY

The South Koochiching/Rainy River Public School system believes that the primary purpose of education is to provide the environment for preparation of the student for useful citizenship. This environment will enable all children, youth, and adults to acquire information, skills, knowledge, worthy ideals and attitudes, appreciations, and understanding which are conductive to successful and fruitful living in a changing world. Inherent in this concept of education is the provision of self-realization, human relationship, economic efficiency and socio-civic responsibility according to individual needs, interests, and abilities. The best possible educational program will influence the growth of each individual so that the person will be able to achieve personal happiness and self realization within the culture and accepted patterns of our society, and reciprocally that the person will contribute to the improvement of society through the person's own cooperative purposeful activity in the interest of all. The school responsibility entails not only providing an adequate general background upon which the student can build in achieving more specific goals, but also the necessity of discovering and developing those talents which meet the more specific needs of labor, agriculture, business, and the professions. The school should be cognizant that students differ in interests and mental and physical capacity, and these differences must be considered in planning the curriculum. Subject matter and the instruction should be sufficiently varied in scope and difficulty to challenge each student to achieve according to his/her ability. The school, as an institution of our social order, is organized to promote and perpetuate the fundamental aims of our democratic society by providing quality educational opportunities for all the children of all the people regardless of race, color, creed or economic status.

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