Values of the Month

RESPECT- Showing regard for the worth and dignity of someone or something, being courteous and polite, and judging all people on their merits. Respect takes three major forms: respect for oneself, respect for other people, and respect for all forms of life and the environment.

RESPONSIBILITY: Thinking before you act and being accountable for your actions, paying attention to others, and responding to their needs. Responsibility emphasizes our positive obligations to care for each other.

CITIZENSHIP: Helping create a society based upon democratic values including rules of law, equality of opportunity, due process, reasoned argument, representative government, checks and balances, rights and responsibilities and democratic decision-making.

FAIRNESS: Treating people impartially not playing favorites, being open-minded, and maintaining an objective attitude towards those whose actions and ideas are different from our own.

PURSUIT of EXCELLENCE Doing your best with the talents you have, striving toward a goal and not giving up.

KINDNESS: Being sympathetic, helpful, compassionate, benevolent, agreeable and gentle toward people and other living things.

COOPERATION: Working together toward goals as basic as human survival in an increasingly interdependent world.

HONESTY: Dealing truthfully with people, being sincere, not deceiving them or stealing from them, not cheating or lying.

INTEGRITY: Standing up for your beliefs about what is right and what is wrong and resisting social pressure to do wrong.