IHAK - Character and Citizenship Education
Those in charge of curriculum development will have the responsibility for integrating into the curriculum, as appropriate, the following principles:
- Each individual has dignity and worth
- A free society requires respect for persons, property, principles, and self.
- Each individual has a right to learn and freedom to achieve.
- Each individual, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, ethnic background, or economic status, has the right to equal opportunity.
- Each individual has the right to personal liberties.
- Each individual is responsible for his/her own actions, and should exercise selfdiscipline where and when appropriate.
- Each individual has a responsibility to the group as well as to the total society.
- A democratic government is established by majority vote.
- Democratic societies are based on law.
- Problems are solved through reason and orderly processes.
- An individual should be tolerant of another’s beliefs and should have freedom to
- express his/her own.
- • Each individual has the right to work, to pursue an occupation, and to gain
- satisfaction from personal efforts.
Teaching in the area of character and citizenship will take place throughout the K-12 program.
Legal Resources:
RSA: 186:13, 11; ED 306:10 (a) (5)
First Reading: March 9, 2000
2nd Reading: March 23, 2000
Date Adopted: March 23, 2000
Last Review Date: N/A