Use of Facilities by Religious Groups

Schools have policies and procedures in place to support staff in situations that may involve violence, threatening behaviour and/or abuse among other policies which are all legal requirements within the setting of a school. Policies intend to provide a structure that makes sure consistent principles are applied to practice within a school. They aren’t planned to point out every imaginable event that might be applied within the policy scheme.

4- The committee and Ms Beckel decided to include a religious studies curriculum in the program. The principal approved of it. However, Ms Wright one of the community members did not. She threatened to show up at the committee meeting with the media. On the day of the meeting, Ms Wright showed up with a placard protesting the use of the bible in public schools.

The student does not have the right to decide his punishment. The school official in

ensuring that there is an effective way of reporting any hazards to the appropriate person so that any required action can be taken. Every school is

Schools are required to have policies and procedures as they safe guard the staff and pupils and

In this case the teacher should inform the head teacher about this incident and if may involve the police if necessary.

There is a need that each school, its administrators and teachers should know the law of torts. In order to create a "culture of safety" principals should manage the risk of negligence to the faculty and students. As Burgett and Schwartz state, “being a teacher, administrator, board member, school employee, parent, or even a student is tricky business these days” (p.9). Therefore, each decision or actions’ steps should be made based upon ethical and legal principles. The particular high school puts an emphasis on health and safety issues. The school, the buildings, and the classroom are certainly the most critical areas of an educational institution where safety and health take place but also behavior and attitude reflect the importance of the serious business of learning. Therefore, the following three legal issues: unsupervised students, hallways, and field trips demand some improvements, accommodations or extra care to maintain the safety and healthy environment for students and employees.

It would be a wise idea for school administrators to have a comprehensive security assessment of the school’s physical design, safety policies, and emergency procedures. Once again this must be conducted with the cooperation of school staff, emergency personnel, students, and other school community members. Every school has different needs and safety plans may vary. According to the IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police), there are twenty recommended actions that can be used to prevent violence in a school setting.

A student at Westside High School requested to form a Christian Club that would meet after school. The club would be granted the same privileges as the other student groups at the school, but they did not have a faculty sponsor. Her request was denied by the principal stating that the club would violate the Establishment Clause and the School Board policy requiring a faculty member to sponsor the club. Mergens took her concerns to the School Board. The School Board upheld the principal’s decision. Mergens filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Westside Community Schools, for denying the request for a Christian

Preview: I will review the details of the case; prove that the school, and discuss how the solution should be solved stepped on the rights of the students.

There are many different policies and procedures that schools have to abide by some of these are;

BACKGROUND FACTS: The State of New York Education Law 414 lists several examples of how a school may open their doors to public use and allows the school board to adopt their own regulations for governing their facilities. The respondent, Milford Central School, adopted 7 policies for facility use, and specifically two, which had implications in the case. (1) District residents may use the school for “instruction in any branch of education, learning, or the arts.” (2) The school is available for use “provided that such uses be non exclusive and shall be opened to the general public.” Two members of the Good News Club, a private Christian group for children 6-12 requested permission to hold weekly after hour’s meetings in the school cafeteria in September 1996. The request was denied by Milford’s Superintendent due to their meetings purposes that were described as being the equivalent of religious worship. Milford cited the community use policy, which prohibits use for “religious purposes.” The meeting which consisted of singing songs, learning, and reciting bible verse, discussion of bible stories and their application to student lives and a closing prayer was officially rejected by the Milford Board of Education in February of

Bullying death lawsuit: It demands as being school management’s responsibility, the school did not anything to stop the harassment, and ignored frequent warnings.

The bottom line is like all school systems they have their faults, but some more than others. The teacher is to blame in a sense for doing what they did, but the school is also partially responsible for the incident. The school system is at fault. They are the ones in charge of hiring these disgusting minded people that would do such to a child. The child did not ask for this to happen. So why did it happen? If the school system really would have thoroughly examined the teacher before hiring him, maybe this incident would not have happened. Also, if there was more security and monitoring going on in classrooms this could have been prevented. That is where the school system fails, at the protection of the students, because the teacher should

Physically, the room was a safe learning environment. The evacuation procedures were posted clearly by the door, two lab safety posters were posted one by the storage room facing the students and the other on the cabinets in the classroom, no physical damage was present, there were enough chairs and desks for every student, and book bags were stored neatly underneath the student’s desk. Strategic placement of two desks together, to create a block of four allowed students more room to navigate the classroom. On M.’s desk, there was three rolls of tickets, each a different color, that referred to either bonus points on a quiz, bonus points on a test, or a homework pass in which a student needed five of a pink ticket. A system was in place for students to leave class without interrupting as a bathroom pass and sign-out log was placed on the front table by the door.