Instruction

REQUIRED OBSERVANCES

(VETERANS’ DAY AND TEMPERANCE AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP DAY)

 

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Policy No. 2336

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

Constitution Day shall 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 shall be conducted on the preceding Friday.

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

 

 

 

 

Legal References:         RCW  28A.230.160                      Educational activities in observance of Veterans Day

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

 

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

 

 

Management Resources:     Policy News, August 2006       Constitution Day Recognition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adopted:  December 18, 2008

Blaine School District

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