Glenbard Township High School District 87
Policy 6:70-R1
Instruction
Administrative Procedure – Teaching About Religions
The following are guidelines for teaching about religions:
1. Instruction must be age appropriate to ensure that students will not believe the District is
sponsoring religion.
2. Instruction may expose students to religious views, but may not impose any particular views.
3. Instruction must be informational, not indoctrinational.
4. Instruction must be academic, not devotional.
5. Instruction may study what people believe, but may not teach a student what to believe.
6. Instruction should strive for student awareness and tolerance of a variety of religions, but should
not press for student acceptance of any one religion.
Within the parameters of the academic study of religion, teachers may display objects, artifacts, and
symbols which give form to a variety of religious customs, beliefs, and expressions. Any classroom
and school display presented as a part of religious study or holiday activities will meet the following
criteria:
1. The display will be exhibited on a temporary basis.
2. The display will be constructed in a manner which presents no endorsement, favoritism, or
promotion of a single religion or religious belief.
3. The display will include non-secular as well as secular symbols.
4. The display will include appropriate, descriptive labels attached to the symbols. Individual student
participation in the preparation of a religious study display or a religious holiday display is strictly
voluntary. If the display is a class activity, the student who wishes not to participate may be given
an alternative assignment.
DATED: March 1999
REVIEWED: January 17, 2006
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