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I vote to drop Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. This could give our kids two extra school days to prepare for competing with other developed nations whose academic achievement standards have passed ours in the global economy. No offense meant to Catholics, Italians, Spaniards, grade school teachers who'll have to find new art projects for their classes. Why national holidays in remembrance of events that shortly preceded the subordination, exploitation, and decimation of large swaths of native populations for the prospering of the European transplants/explorers? If we are to add a national holiday to our calendar, how about one recognizing the Native American?
I vote to drop Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. This could give our kids two extra school days to prepare for competing with other developed nations whose academic achievement standards have passed ours in the global economy. No offense meant to Catholics, Italians, Spaniards, grade school teachers who'll have to find new art projects for their classes. Why national holidays in remembrance of events that shortly preceded the subordination, exploitation, and decimation of large swaths of native populations for the prospering of the European transplants/explorers? If we are to add a national holiday to our calendar, how about one recognizing the Native American?
Thanksgiving doesn't actually have much to do with the Native Americans. Although some natives were involved in trying to help the first pilgrams survive their first winters by helping them harvest, Thanksgiving is a harvest festival which was celebrated around the world prior to any Europeans settling in the Americas. It's not always called "Thanksgiving", not always celebrated in November and not always a national holiday - but it was originally about giving thanks (mainly to God, not the Native Americans) for a good harvest at the end of the season.
I could care less about "competing with other developed nations whose academic achievement standards have passed ours". Who cares? I prefer celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in houses built with closets and not having to use a squat toilette.
I could care less about "competing with other developed nations whose academic achievement standards have passed ours". Who cares? I prefer celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in houses built with closets and not having to use a squat toilette.
LOL! I gotta agree with you on this one, GB.
I wonder if the OP thought he should be going to school on these days when he was a kid. Hey, and don't even try to take away BLACK FRIDAY.
Even the teachers who are moms would line up to shoot you, Bongo.
And why not take all of them away then, Veterans Day, after all, kids aren't veterans, MLK day, go to school on saturdays, and summers.
Why the heck not? But 2 losey days, I don't think so.
BAH HUMBUG!
I could care less about "competing with other developed nations whose academic achievement standards have passed ours". Who cares? I prefer celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in houses built with closets and not having to use a squat toilette.
I agree with you 100% Glory.
Dropping these holidays which we have been celebrating for ages would be completely asinine. Leave it alone. Two more days is school isn't going to make life or death for the kids in school.
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