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12 <br />CLASS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL <br />Carolina Friends School <br />4809 Friends School Road <br />Applicant's Statement <br />Carolina Friends School (CFS) is an independent school established and operated <br />in the Quaker tradition, located in a beautiful wooded setting in rural Orange <br />County, North Carolina. <br />Mission Statement <br />We are a vibrant and inclusive learning community that empowers students to think <br />critically, creatively, and independently. We foster active exploration and quiet <br />reflection, individual endeavor and collaborative engagement. Inspired by Quaker <br />values -- pursuit of truth, respect for all, peaceful resolution of conflict, simplicity, the <br />call to service - we teach our children that it is possible to change the world. <br />Philosophy <br />The philosophy of Carolina Friends School is reflected in the following beliefs, which <br />are rooted in the tenets of the Religious Society of Friends: <br />BELIEF THAT TRUTH IS CONTINUALLY REVEALED, which implies: <br />Openness to answer the light in others; willingness to listen and respond to the still <br />small voice within; belief that answers are dynamic, not static; commitment to look <br />beyond and beneath the obvious, searching for truth and identifying falsehood; <br />engagement in the search for truth because of its inherent value, not simply to find <br />answers. <br />BELIEF IN SEEKING PEACE WITH ONESELF AND OTHERS, which implies: <br />Commitment to achieve a level of self - awareness necessary to interact genuinely <br />with others; effort to foster relationships founded on trust; commitment to a life of <br />nonviolence; belief that peace is not the absence of conflict but the peaceful <br />resolution of conflict; accepting that the resolution of personal and interpersonal <br />conflict is a lifelong task. <br />BELIEF IN ACCEPTING AND RESPECTING EACH INDIVIDUAL'S UNIQUENESS, <br />which implies: <br />Commitment to employ and enroll individuals of diverse backgrounds; commitment <br />to provide community members with opportunities to learn to know one another; <br />shared resolve to be open to the differences in others; commitment to provide a <br />curriculum that enables each to celebrate one's unique talents and heritage and <br />those of others; acceptance of the responsibility for one's own learning; commitment <br />to lessen divisions among ages, among school units, and between the School and <br />the broader community; acceptance of that of God in each person; belief that the <br />individual achieves identity in relation to community and that an individual's identity <br />