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Religious Accommodations for Students
The Marlington Board of Education has adopted the following policies (click to view each) to accommodate students' sincerely held religious beliefs and practices with regard to all examinations or other academic requirements and absences for reasons of faith or religious or spiritual belief system.
- po5200 Attendance
- po2431 Interscholastic Athletics
- po5223 Release Time for Religious Instruction During the School Day
- po2270 Religion in the Curriculum
Among other assurances, these policies provide the following in accordance with O.R.C. 3320.04:
- Up to three religious expression days.
- Permission to participate in athletics on religious expression days.
- Alternative accommodations for examinations or other academic requirements conflicting with a religious expression day.
- Students shall not be prohibited from engaging in religious expression in the completion of assignments.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of religious holidays, festivals, and religious observations:
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, Eid al-Fitr, Pesach (Passover), Good Friday, Easter, Eid al-Adha. An updated list is published each year by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and is available on the Ohio DEW website:
Religious Expression in Ohio Schools.
If you have questions about any of these policies, please contact Bob Foss, Treasurer at (330) 821-4012 or
[email protected].