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The Dept. of Education guidelines mentioned in the article are at http://www.ed.gov/print/policy/gen/guid/religionandschools/prayer_guidance.html They summarize the current state of constitutional law and are actually pretty good in laying out the restrictions against school sponsorship or endorsement of religious observance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ned Gardner" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Decider sets January 16 as " Freedom from the Religious Day" > Bernard Barber Ph.D. wrote: >> I wonder if the rules include the right not to have religious >> observation? >> BB >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of rayilynlee >> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:16 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Decider sets January 16 as "Religious Freedom Day" >> >> >From Cathi Herrod, the Center for Arizona Policy: applauding >> >another Bush >> "proclamation" >> >> Religious Freedom in Public Schools? >> >> Your children have the right to share their faith at school. >> Do they know >> that? Do their teachers know that? January 16 will be declared >> "Religious >> Freedom Day." By special proclamation, President Bush will ask >> schools to >> commemorate the day. Do our schools need this focus on >> religious freedom? >> Yes! Leftist groups, like the ACLU, have been hammering away >> at school >> teachers and administrators for years, trying to turn our >> schools into >> religion-free zones. But the law is on our side. The U.S. >> Department of >> Education has released a simple set of guidelines that clearly >> lay out your >> child's legal rights to observe and share his faith at school. >> Many teachers >> don't even know these guidelines exist, so why not observe >> Religious Freedom >> Day, Jan. 16th, by giving your child's teachers a copy? >> Download a copy of >> the guidelines here. >> > How fragile and easily forgotten are the faith based dictoms if > they > cannot survive for the week without > a public school teachers effort to impart their prospective? > Just > wondering....... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn