Saturday, October 4, 2003

(I know part 4!please read all to get the full jist.) This will sent along with the letter

Here are just a few excerpts from the U.S. Secretary of Education’s webpage and guidelines he has set forth.  I encourage you to visit this website and read over these guidelines and how they may apply to this situation. Official neutrality regarding religious activity: Teachers and school administrators, when acting in those capacities, are representatives of the state and are prohibited by the establishment clause from soliciting or encouraging religious activity, and from participating in such activity with students. Teachers and administrators also are prohibited from discouraging activity because of its religious content, and from soliciting or encouraging antireligious activity.Religious literature: Students have a right to distribute religious literature to their schoolmates on the same terms as they are permitted to distribute other literature that is unrelated to school curriculum or activities. Schools may impose the same reasonable time, place, and manner or other constitutional restrictions on distribution of religious literature as they do on nonschool literature generally, but they may not single out religious literature for special regulation. Equal access to means of publicizing meetings: A school receiving Federal funds must allow student groups meeting under the Act to use the school media -- including the public address system, the school newspaper, and the school bulletin board -- to announce their meetings on the same terms as other noncurriculum-related student groups are allowed to use the school media. Any policy concerning the use of school media must be applied to all noncurriculum-related student groups in a nondiscriminatory matter. Schools, however, may inform students that certain groups are not school sponsored.

4 comments:

  1. Hey you got top 5! Congradulations! Aww *so proud* Love,
    Erin

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  2. Superb reading and writing here. Fantastic job on making the top five journals of the day. Keep on writing...

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  3. Hey Mary! Great job! Number 1 this time. You deserve it. Thank you for stopping by mine and for your advice. I have taken it all to heart, and really appreciate it all! Talk to you soon. Love ya, Ann

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  4. excellent glow/blog---i've been here before. Meanwhile, schools are schools &
    churches are churches. US Constitution provides there be no 'establishment' of
    a state-sponsored Religion. So---public schools cannot expressly allow one religion over several dozen others[or deny alltogether the same]. Too bad Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha et alia didn't appear to Jefferson & Madison at the
    Constitutional Conventions.

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