Principals will be responsible for the preparation and presentation of educational activities of approximately sixty minutes in duration in observance of Veteran’s Day. The program will be conducted during the school week preceding the eleventh day of November of each year.

Constitution Day will be observed each year on September 17 in commemoration of the September 17, 1787, signing of the United States Constitution. If September 17 occurs on a non-school day, Constitution Day will be conducted on the preceding Friday.

Temperance and Good Citizenship Day will be observed on January 16 or, if on a non-school day, the Friday preceding January 16.

Disability History Month will be observed during the month of October by conducting or promoting educational activities such as school assemblies or guest speaker presentations that provide instruction, awareness and understanding of disability history and people with disabilities.

 

Legal References:       

RCW  28A.230.150                      Temperance and Good Citizenship Day — Aids in programming

RCW 28A.230.158                       Disability history month — Activities

RCW  28A.230.160                      Educational activities in observance of Veteran’s Day

36 U.S.C. 106                             Constitution and Citizenship Day

 

Management Resources:  

Policy & Legal News, February 2014, Other updates/corrections

Policy News, August 2006            Constitution Day Recognition

 

 

Adoption Date: 11.22.94

Ferndale School District

Revised: 03.27.08; 02.25.14