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To help educators create high-functioning democratic learning communities, the Five Freedoms Project provides an actionable framework for school leadership, based on four overlapping themes. Click on each of the themes below for action steps and resources:
Religious Liberty. Speech. Press. Assembly. Petition.
Reflect. Connect. Create. Equip. Let Come.
Knowledge. Commitment. Habits. Aspirations. Actions.
Achievement. Balance. Climate. Democratic Practices. Equity.
You Be The Judge
May school officials require students to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance?
In 1935, a fifth-grade student in Minersville, Pennsylvania refused to participate in his school’s morning ritual of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. “I do not salute the flag,” he later explained, “because I have promised to do the will of God.” His school suspended him for his actions.
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