|
IT IS OKAY |
IT’S NOT OKAY |
| To teach the personal and civic
virtues widely held in our society, such as honesty, caring, fairness, and
integrity [TGRPS]
To instill in students such values as "independent thought,
tolerance of diverse views, self-respect, maturity, self-reliance and
logical decision-making [ADL-with court citation]
To teach secular values such as honesty, respect for others, courage,
kindness and good citizenship [OABITAR]
To play an active role with respect to teaching civic values and
virtue, and the moral code that holds us together as a community [USDE] |
To teach values as religious
tenets [ADL]
To invoke religious authority or denigrate the religious or
philosophical commitments of students and parents [TGRPS]
To appeal to a religious base or rationale for your teaching of such
values [OABITAR] |
| To teach secular values which
coincide with religious values (The fact that most religions also teach
these values does not change the lawfulness and desirability of teaching
them.) [ADL] |
To reward or punish students
because their statements agree or disagree with your own views [TGRPS] |
| To voice your endorsement of
shared civic values such as honesty, respect for others, courage, kindness
and good citizenship with students [OABITAR] |
To volunteer your personal
religious views with students, particularly those in the lower grades. If
a teacher’s religious views become the subject of discussion, the
teacher must make clear that he or she is in no way encouraging students
to adopt those views [ADL] |
| To participate in religious
activities or advocate particular religious views when in circumstances
where students are not present (e.g., in a faculty lunchroom), since
teachers are afforded the same rights as is any government employee [ADL] |
To participate in religious
activities or advocate particular religious views when you are teaching or
counseling students or acting as representatives of the school [ADL] |
