What Do We Value?

As a community we commit to preparing our students for the 21^st Century, without fully knowing what they may face as challenges or what job opportunities will await them. As important as curriculum standards are to preparing all students with a common knowledge, equally important are the values we instill in those students.

What important values do we want all students to leave Newton-Conover City Schools with? Integrity? Respect for themselves? Respect for others? Respect for diversity? Trustworthiness? Honesty? Compassion? The list is not short, nor is it trivial. These values that we seek to instill in students are as valuable to them as any content we will teach them. These values will be the thread that strengthens and binds our community years from now when these young men and women have grown into leaders.

In Newton-Conover City Schools, as well as in our community at large, we must all make concerted efforts to reflect what we want to see in our students. We should purposefully and without reservation work to instill these necessary values into the lives of students so that when they have the opportunities to apply what they’ve learned in our schools along the way, they will do so in a manner that will make us all proud.