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.
To learn more about Religious Freedom Day, visit ReligiousFreedomDay.com.
And don’t forget to take a look at the Religious Freedom Day Guidebook for Presidential proclamations of the past, an easy-to-read paraphrase of the Virginia Statute, a summary of the U.S. Department of Education’s guidelines on students’ religious liberties, and more!
How do you plan to celebrate Religious Freedom Day tomorrow? Comment Below.
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Originally posted by Alana at AAE.
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