ARTICLE XIV
Academic Freedom

A. Academic freedom shall be guaranteed to the Teachers within the District's planned instructional program and no special limitation shall be placed upon study and investigation of facts and ideas concerning man, human society, the physical and biological world, and other branches of learning, subject to the following standards of professional responsibility.
 
1. The Teacher shall encourage the student to study varying points of view and respect his/her right to form a personal judgment.
 
2. Academic freedom exercised by a Teacher requires that he/she be cognizant of the maturity of his/her students and that this be recognized in instructional presentations.