This is the official Facebook page of Junction City Public Schools. We are located in the border town of Junction City, Arkansas and we serve students from Union County, Arkansas and Claiborne Parish, Union Parish, and Lincoln Parish, Louisiana!
JUNCTION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of education for the Junction City School District is to teach students to become useful citizens in their country through knowledge of subject matter, citizenship and daily activities of the school environment.
In order to accomplish the above, we believe education should fulfill these parameters:
1. Create an atmosphere conducive to learning.
2. Meet the needs of each student mentally, emotionally, and socially.
3. Strive to promote continuing development of the mental, emotional, social and physical growth as the student matures.
4. Include a curriculum varied enough to encompass the following:
a. a challenge for each student to attain the fullest of his/her capabilities.
b. a stimulant and an engagement for each student for immediate fulfillment of academic goals.
c. a stimulant for each student to develop a desire for continued growth of knowledge.
d. the enabling of each student to pursue his/her own unique potentialities.
e. the instilling in each student a desire to acquire, interpret, evaluate and communicate ideas.
5. Provide the opportunities for students to gain the skills and attitudes, which will make them contributing members of the American society.
This philosophy shall be fostered as being the privilege and obligation of every teacher and administrator in the Junction City School District to set the criteria through the curriculum by which every student has the opportunity to make satisfactory transition from one subject to another.
The educational staff and faculty members for the Junction City School District believe that the schools of this community exist for the benefit of the children. It is further believed that the main task of the schools is to help each student acquire the understandings, skills, ideals, values and attitudes necessary to achieve the greatest personal development possible. Although the institution of education is a constant throughout all cultures and societies, the goals, objectives, extent, method and organization of a given educational system must necessarily be regarded as current and transitory.
While the educational systems of this country are subject to constant
pressures and changes, there are threads of continuity, which are evident throughout. These are reaffirmed through the public’s conception of the schools being classless, impartial, nonpartisan and nonsectarian agencies of the state from which all children have the right to receive instruction.
Additionally, public education is viewed as that institution which most contributes to the harmonization of those cultural and societal differences which might otherwise create social conflict and group cleavage. In its broadest sense, the function of the education which is an integral part of the total American culture, represents the greatest force for the democratization of this nation’s diverse population; and for this reason, the educational process must reflect the highest ideals in both theory and practice and yet be flexible and cognizant of the inevitability of change.
Furthermore, the members of this school district strongly subscribe to the principle that great care must always be taken to guard against the establishment of too narrow a concept of the aims and purpose of public education as well as the development of attitudes receptive to social stratification and cultural inflexibility. It is a strongly held conviction of the staff and faculty that the American form of democracy requires that its educational system provide for equality of individual opportunity in accordance with each child’s unique capacity, religion, age, sex, geographic location, physical, social or economic conditions.
