Priority: Normal

Topic: RE: Monks

Sent: 9/1/99

From: Tukuafu, Judy

To: DeFord, Nancy

CC:

RE: Monks

Common Sense, what a concept.

I'll pass the main into Linda bonar.

On 9/1/99, Nancy DeFord wrote:

>I got your note about the monks...

>

>I don't mind if they move into the foyer...as long as security is not our issue and they don't

>blame us when the high school football team tromps through the mandala!

>

>In our opinion, this experience is not sponsored by us (it's Summit Inst and PCPAF). Our

>students will be attending as class field trips or as individuals after school on their own

>time. Students will be watching the ceremony as part of a cultural exchange rather than

>participating in a religious ceremony. It's important that they be observers, not

>participants if the ceremony is religious.

>

>As general good practice for all field trips, its is also important that teachers who bring

>their class on a field trip provide information to the students about the content of the trip

>and that students whose parents wish to opt them out be allowed to do so. It should not

>be a mandatory trip.

>

>So...no problem, given normal good practice and common sense.

>