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| Are You Celebrating Religious Freedom Day? |
| posted by: Garry | January 15, 2015, 08:04 PM |
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Religious Freedom Day is tomorrow, January 16th. And schools are being encouraged to spend time recognizing the day as the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom from 1786. Since it was first declared by President Clinton in 1993, it has been declared every year thereafter and calls upon homes, schools, and places of worship to promote and protect students’ religious rights by informing educators, parents, and students about their civil liberties.
Many teachers partake in recognizing Religious Freedom Day by reading the presidential proclamation in their classrooms, assigning students to write a paper on exercising their religious freedom at school, distributing copies of the U.S. Department of Education’s guidelines on students religious liberties, hosting discussions on countries where freedom of religion is prohibited, assign students to read and begin a dialogue on Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute on Religious freedom, and sharing their lesson plans with their fellow educators.
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