IJ - Instructional Materials

File: IJ
Instructional Materials
 
The Franklin School Committee believes that materials appropriate to the needs of the school program must be available to each student and teacher.  These will be furnished by the School Committee through budgeting appropriations.
 

The task of selecting instructional materials for programs will be delegated to the professional staff of the school system.  Instructional materials will be based upon the following considerations:

  • They must present balanced views of international, national, and local issues and problems of the past, present and future.
  • They must provide materials that stimulate growth in factual knowledge, literary appreciation, aesthetic and ethical values
  • They must help students develop abilities in critical reading and thinking.
  • They must help develop and foster an appreciation of cultural diversity and development in the United States and throughout the world.
  • They must provide for all students an effective basic education that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, disability, pregnancy or a related condition, veteran status, age, or homelessness .
  • They must allow sufficient flexibility for meeting the special needs of individual students and groups of students.

LEGAL REFS.:    M.G.L. 71:48; 71:49; 71:50

CROSS REF.:      KEC, (also IIAE), Public Complaints About Instructional Materials

 

Reviewed; Revised; 10/27/15
Reviewed; no revisions 5/9/16
Reviewed, Revised 5/1/2018