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American Founders' Month
Labor Day - First Monday of the month
Patriots Day & 9/11 Commemoration--Sept. 11, 2021
U.S. Constitution Day- Sept. 17, 2021
Section (s.) 683.1455, F.S. designates the month of September as American Founders’ Month.
Recognize and observe this occasion through appropriate programs, meetings, services or celebrations in which state, county and local governmental officials are invited to participate.
Public schools are encouraged to coordinate instruction at all grade levels related to the nation’s founding fathers.
Section (s.) 1003.421, F.S. designates the last full week of classes in September as Celebrate Freedom Week.
Must include at least three hours of appropriate instruction in each social studies class.
This instruction shall include an in-depth study of the intent, meaning and importance of the Declaration of Independence.
To emphasize the importance of this week, at the beginning of each school day or in homeroom, during the last full week of September, public school principals and teachers shall conduct an oral recitation by students of the following words of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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