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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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