6:255 Instruction
(Acrobat File)
     
 

Assemblies and Ceremonies
Assemblies must be approved by the Superintendent or Building Principal as the superintendent designee and be consistent with the District's educational objectives. 

While the District respects an individual’s brief, quiet, personal religious observance(s), it shall not endorse or otherwise promote invocations, benedictions, and group prayers at any school assembly, ceremony, or other school-sponsored activity. 

LEGAL REF.: Lee v. Weisman, 112 S.Ct. 2649 (1992).

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 120 S.Ct. 2266 (2000)

Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. 142 S.Ct. 2407 (2022).

Jones v. Clear Creek Independent School District, 930 F.2.d 416 (5th Cir. 1991), cert.

granted, judgment vacated, 505 U.S. 1215 (1992), remand, 977 F.2d 963 (5th Cir. 1992), reh’g denied, 983 F.2d 234 (5th Cir. 1992) and cert. denied, 113 S.Ct. 2950 (1993).

CROSS REF.: 6:70 (Teaching About Religion), 6:80 (Teaching About Controversial Issues)

Reviewed: February 27, 2006, March 9, 2015, November 6, 2017, June 20, 2023

Adopted: May 15, 2006

Revisions Adopted: March 23, 2015, December 18, 2017, July 31, 2023