Participation in community celebrations, patriotic observations or other special events by instrumental groups, choral groups, athletic teams or other student groups is supported by the Lincoln Board of Education as a means of promoting positive relations between the schools and the community as well as for its instructional value.
School groups are not to be used to promote partisan politics, sectarian religious views or commercial enterprises. The Board does not interpret that participation in a holiday observance that has religious overtones as automatically a promotion of a sectarian religious view. However, no student shall be required to participate in any religious holiday observance and shall not have any grade lowered or be otherwise punished for exercising the right of non-participation.