Iowa School District Unveils Revised Religious Liberty Draft Policy

After withdrawing its original draft policy on religious liberty in schools (see prior posting), Spencer, Iowa school officials today unveiled a new draft (full text). It provides in part:

Teachers shall prepare and teach lessons throughout the year and throughout the curriculum that:

• Approach religion as academic, not devotional
• Strive for student awareness of religions, not acceptance of religions
• Study about religion, but do not practice religion in the classroom
• Expose students to diversity of religious views, not impose any particular view
• Educate about a variety of religions, not promote or denigrate religion
• Inform students about various beliefs, not conform students to any particular belief
• Demonstrate the impact of economic, social, political and cultural effects of religion throughout history
• Are age appropriate

The Spencer Daily Reporter covers these developments.