New Jersey School District Erased All Holiday Names After Dropping Columbus Day
Written by Site Hub on June 17, 2021
When the school board in Randolph Township voted to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, some residents were outraged. In response to the outrage, the school board said that instead, it would wipe holiday names from the school calendar altogether, while still observing the days off. Holidays such as Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc, will still be listed in the calendar, however, each one of these days will be listed, simply, as “day off.”
The goal of doing this was to hopefully end the debate over Columbus Day, but the Randolph Township school system instead found itself more involved in it, and opponents of the move have called on school officials to resign. A Randolph resident Tom Tatem stated; “ 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”
Source: NPR
