6:255 Assemblies and Ceremonies

Assemblies must be approved by the Building Principal and be consistent with the District’s educational goals.

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.

Cross Reference:

6:070 Teaching About Religions

Legal Reference(s): 

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

Santa Fe Independent Sch. Dist. v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 (2000).
Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist., 142 S.Ct. 2407 (2022).
Jones v. Clear Creek Independent Sch. Dist., 930 F.2d 416 (5th Cir. 1991), cert. granted, judgement vacated, 505 U.S. 1215 (1992), remand, 977 F.2d 963, reh’g denied, 983 F.2d 234 (5th Cir. 1992), and cert. denied, 508 U.S. 967 (1993)

Date Adopted: 01/26/2010

Date Amended: 01/24/2023