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R From our time together, several themes emerged about what our community believes and envisions for public education. We hope that our visions and expectations stated here will inspire all members of our community, in all our diversity, to work in concert with our public schools on behalf of all our children and our community. These are: Vision Statements We believe..... We believe in learning from our history and each other and striving together to empower all our children by providing them with a high quality education that benefits them as individuals and our community as a whole. We believe that Orange County Schools should strive to be an educational system that is designed around children and the ways they learn. We believe in Orange County's rich agriculture and manufacturing heritage and the values it inspires of hard work, self - reliance and craftsmanship passed down to each new generation through our continuously improving and increasingly inclusive system of public education. We believe in the power of qualified teachers and all the employees who support teachers and learning, to make a real difference in the lives of our children and in our community. Therefore, we believe that teachers should be respected, supported and fairly compensated based on market rate factors. We believe in the importance of engaging the interest and support of a child's family in achieving high quality educational outcomes. We believe in our schools as centers for equality where all students are educated to their fullest and as centers of our community around which we come together in support of the education of all students. We believe in the importance of our children, our community, our leaders and ourselves working together democratically to solve problems and create opportunities to enrich our collective future. 4