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School district scraps ALL holiday names to avoid ‘hurt feelings’ with Christmas & Thanksgiving to be called ‘days off’
A NEW Jersey school district will remove holiday names from their academic calendar to be more inclusive of its students and to avoid “hurt feelings.”
The Randolph Township in Morris County voted unanimously on Thursday to call holidays like Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and Jewish holy addys like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just as “day off.”
Randolph High School board members decided to call all holidays as “day off”[/caption]
The move comes after the district received plenty of backlash for renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day.
“If we don’t have anything on the calendar, we don’t have to have anyone [with] hurt feelings or anything like that,” board member Dorene Roche told Fox 5.
Others on the board said it wasn’t up to the school board to be making such naaming decisions.
“I don’t think really it is the board’s responsibility to be naming these holidays,” said Ronald Conti, another board member.
“Either take them off or just adopt whatever the federal and state governments are doing,” he added.
About 125 people showed up to the board’s Thursday meeting to oppose the Columbus Day name change, which the board approved unanimously a month ago.
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Among them was Republican state senator Anthony Bucco, who spoke out against the change.
Many decried the board’s decision, claiming it was not made public, with some yelling “what happened? What did you just do?” at the board members last month.
The Randolph Township School District’s 2021-2022 academic calendar is available with the holiday names included.
