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FREEDOM CLASSROOM. A Value Added Class in Freedom of Conscience Principles The 2012 Pilot Program for High School Students. Freedom Classroom: Preface. Freedom Classroom 2012 is more than a tour of Washington D.C. and the surrounding historical areas. The trip was:
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FREEDOM CLASSROOM A Value Added Class in Freedom of Conscience Principles The 2012 Pilot Program for High School Students
Freedom Classroom: Preface • Freedom Classroom 2012 is more than a tour of Washington D.C. and the surrounding historical areas. The trip was: • The exclamation point to the preceding education in the academy and orientation classrooms. • The students introduction to a new and real world of groups in ideological political, social and moral conflict. This made classroom content relevant. • The beginning of living freedom of conscience values with sensitivity that respects the convictions of others in all their personal relationships: with friends, family, people at work, in the local church, community and nation.
Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience • Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: • Apply Freedom of Conscience principles respectfully in personal relationships within a plural society. This is gospel mission for these times! It is the Christian response to Satan’s surrogates that demand compliance else experience economic sanctions or worse! • Understand the underlying truth that Freedom of Conscience and its attendant personal freedoms is the most basic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. • The framers of the Constitution recognized these freedoms as unalienable rights endowed by the Creator of mankind.
Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience • Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: • Value Freedom of Conscience principles in their community service and personal relationships. • Be informed about natural rights, contemporary issues and pending legislation. • Advocate for freedom of conscience unalienable rights at the local, state or national level.
Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience • Principles help the students to be independent thinkers as they consider how to • Preserve freedom of conscience. • Respect the conscientious convictions of others. • Proactively participate respectfully in the domestic affairs of this nation as informed citizens who are Christians.
Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience • Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: • Be ready to represent God as the one who loves us unconditionally in Christ. • There isn’t anything he would not ‘be’ or ‘do’ in order to be with us personally and to have each one of us want to be with him. • Christ, our Creator-Redeemer, respects freedom of conscience convictions and choices as revealed by his offer of eternal life to “WHOSOEVER believes in him….”
Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience • Facilitates discovery that freedom of conscience is a core value of the: • U.S. Constitution • U.S. History • Gospel of Scripture • United Nations Article 18 – Human Rights • Freedom of Conscience without coercion
Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans • Recommend lesson plans cover topics and related principles: • Freedom of Conscience the most basic freedom under Government, God & Gospel Proclamation. • Pluralism in the Colonies & the Constitution. • The Impact of Polarization on Pluralism & Freedom of Conscience.
Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans • Recommend that lesson plans cover the following topics and related principles: • 1st Amendment: Separation of Church & State. • Dominionism: Reinterprets the 1st Amendment Separation of Church and State principle: • A peaceful political Christian coup to take over Government? • A Christian Nation Established by the Constitution vs. A Constitution That Reflects Christian unalienable rights endowed by a Creator?
Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans • Communication lesson plan topics & principles that: • Mentor students in the use of a non-adversarial communication strategy that respects conscientious convictions. • It’s not about a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ agenda, belief or conviction! • Mentor students in corollary skills for use when discussing controversial issues. • It’s not about winning an adversarial debate!
Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans • Coercion lesson plan topics & principles that: • Teach people are entitled respectful conversations • Teach people are entitled to make choices without being coerced, i.e., forced to comply or conform to the ideas, mores or values of the other party. • Coercion has many faces, e.g., restrictions, sanctions, threats, intimidation, economic, emotional & social duress, abuse, alienation, labeling, profiling, laws passed for the common good, etc.