Any given school environment represents the interplay of school cultural values; the curricular, organizational, and human resources of the school; and student productivity, all seen through the lens of student, teacher, and parent perceptions of the school's climate. The environment of the school is not the actual cultural norms and expectations as lived and experienced but also the perception of that reality by the "significant others" of the school -- student, teacher, and parent/community. The perception, in fact, is often more significant than the reality, since people act and react as they perceive something to be.