The Board of Education recognizes that in order to foster the role of education in a democratic society and to ensure equal opportunity to students with different characteristics and viewpoints, it may not permit the curriculum to remain static. The Board deems it essential that the school system continually develop and modify its curriculum to meet the changing needs and diversity of our citizenry and to assure the full, rounded, and continuing development of the individual in our community. While the Board retains its full rights and responsibilities under the laws of Tennessee with regard to the determination of the curriculum, it authorizes the administration to organize committees, which may be comprised of students, parents, teachers, and administrators, to periodically review the curriculum and advise the Board on curriculum changes.
The following guidelines have been established by the Board for use in curriculum development:
Include all courses required by the State Department of Education.
Provide for the needs of both career and technical and academic students.
Review the feasibility of course offerings requested by students even when they represent a minority of the student body.
Explore course offerings and teaching methods that will strengthen student character, firmness of student conviction, and integrity of purpose.
Review curriculum requirements of the State Department of Education.