• File: IB

    ACADEMIC FREEDOM

    The Barnstable School Committee seeks to educate students in the democratic tradition, to foster recognition of individual freedom and social responsibility, to inspire meaningful awareness of and respect for the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    Fairness in procedures will be observed both to safeguard the legitimate interests of the schools and to exhibit by appropriate example the basic objectives of a democratic society as set forth in the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

     

    LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. 69:27 (1993)

    Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

     

    School Committee approved on July 19, 2023.