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On 04 Mar 2022, Trump Is A RUSSIAN ASSET <
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Kick Connecticut out of the Union!
AConnecticut school district is facing backlash after deciding to strip Veterans and Columbus Days from its official holiday calendar in a controversial vote by the school board last week.
Students at Stamford public schools will no longer get the day off on both holidays for the next two school years after the board voted 5-3 to remove
them on Tuesday night, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Board member Joshua Esses made a motion to wipe the holidays from the
school calendar at Tuesday’s meeting, arguing that the school year cut too
far into the summer — ending in mid-June.
“We should make it shorter because it’s better educationally for our
students,” Esses said of the school year — which is required by state law
to have at least 180 teaching days for students, according to the local newspaper.
He also suggested cutting the religious holidays Eid al-Fitr and the
second day of Rosh Hashanah from the list of official holidays with the
same justification — but that motion received no support, the outlet
reported.
Esses noted that Veterans Day and Columbus Day would instead be recognized
and celebrated with lesson plans about the meaning of each on the day of,
a state requirement.
Still, the board’s decision — which was discussed at another meeting
earlier this month when brought up by a different member — garnered
outrage from veterans and Italian-Americans.
Veteran Alfred Fusco, a founding member of the Stamford chapter of the Italian-American service organization UNICO, told ABC7 that the school district’s announcement was a double whammy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/connecticut-school-district-facing- backlash-after-stripping-veterans-day-columbus-day-from-holiday- calendar/ar-BB1hsnRv
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