New Jersey school board removes holiday names from academic calendar
The school board of Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, voted last Thursday to remove holiday names from their academic calendar. These days are now simply listed as a "day off".
Why would the board do such a thing? “If we don’t have anything on the calendar, we don’t have to have anyone be hurt feelings or anything like that,” board member Dorene Roche said before Thursday’s vote.
Apparently stating that there are days such as Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, President's Day, and Memorial Day is simply too much for some liberals to handle.
The backlash from local parents has been strong. A petition was started on Friday demanding that Randolph Township school board members and the school Superintendent "resign immediately," stating that they "clearly do not have the best interests of our children in anything they do" after voting the day before to remove holidays from the official school calendar. As of Monday morning, the petition has over 2400 signatures.
The Facebook page for Randolph Schools has been taken down. The Twitter account no longer exists.
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