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The Randolph Board of Education in New Jersey has reversed its decision to remove the names of holidays from the school calendar following a stormy meeting on Monday.
Earlier this month, the school board chose to amend the calendar by removing the names of all holidays and replacing them with day off. The board voted 8-1 to reinstate the holiday names after parents and community members said they were shocked and insulted by the move. Stripping the traditional holidays on the school calendar is not only insulting, it sends the wrong message to our students. It lessens the meaning of the historical events, said resident Jack Murray.
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The school board in Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, has reversed a decision to erase all holiday names from the school calendar following backlash from parents.
Randolph’s Board of Education on Monday night voted to restore the names of holidays, admitting in a statement that the decision was made “without proper consideration.”
“The very essence of education is to learn, to grow and to apply lessons learned,” the district said, promising that in the future, a review committee will seek community input before proposing any changes to the calendar.
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Originally published on June 16, 2021 7:50 pm
Memorial Day. Thanksgiving. Labor Day.
You may be used to seeing your calendar punctuated by the various holidays that occur throughout the year.
But on one New Jersey school district s calendar, each one of these days will be listed, simply, as day off.
It all started when the school board in Randolph Township voted to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Some residents were outraged, so the board said that instead it would wipe holiday names from the school calendar altogether while still observing the days off. The overwhelming majority of the township population feels that they ve [Randolph Township school board members] grossly overstepped their bounds, that they re completely pushing their own personal, political ideologies, Randolph resident Tom Tatem told Fox News. He started a petition calling on school officials to resign.
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