Merry ‘Day Off:’ NJ School Officials Nix Names of Holidays from Calendar, Including Christmas, Memorial Day, MLK Jr. Day
Penny Starr 15 Jun 2021
Parents are reacting swiftly and strongly to the Randolph, New Jersey School Board’s announcement all holidays would only be referred to as days off instead of using the traditional names, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and Martin Luther King Jr.
A petition launched seeking the resignation of board members has already garnered 2,500 signatures.
The NJ website reported on the controversial development:
“(Superintendent) Jen Fano and all of the Board of Education Members have disgraced our community and clearly do not have the best interests of our children in anything they do,” the online petition started late last week reads. “They represent everything that is wrong in education today and are completely incompetent in every aspect of their role.”
The Randolph public school calendar will no longer list any holiday by name. Instead, they’ll be labeled generically — just as a “Day Off,” with no description of the reason behind it. The decision led to a firestorm of criticism.
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