In the latest effort by the progressive-left to cancel all things good and fun, a New Jersey public school will remove the names of all holidays from the district’s calendar to be “more inclusive.”
Randolph Township Board of Education will now call holidays “days off.”
“If we don’t have anything on the calendar, we don’t have to have anyone be hurt feeling or anything like that,” board member Dorene Roche said before the vote, per the Daily Caller.
Holidays including Thanksgiving, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Christmas will be stripped from the calendar.
“I don’t think really it is the board’s responsibility to be naming these holidays. Either take them off or just adopt whatever the federal and state governments are doing,” board member Ronald Conti said.
The board claimed that they made the decision to remove holiday names after receiving feedback from the community. However, as of Monday morning, over 2,400 people signed a petition calling for the board and the district’s superintendent, Jennifer Fano, to resign.
“Jen Fano and all of the Board of Education have disgraced our community and clearly do not have the best interests of our children in anything they do,” the petition states. “They represent everything that is wrong in education today and are completely incompetent in every aspect of their role.”
The petitions goal is 2,500 signatures.
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Let’s extend this process to cancel the names of the school board members as well.
The board and the district’s superintendent, Jennifer Fano, need to resign. As well as the school principles.
How’s about we just CANCEL ALL HOLIDAYS period.. INCLUDING PAID LEAVE during those days, for EVERY TEACHER, every federal government worker, and every UNION MEMBER!
THEN Cancel all unions!
I prttey much agree with you. Cancel all days off for the teachers, however, if the students want to go home and celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, and other holidays, they should get to stay home without any negative activity taken against them. Even if the classroom is completely empty on December 25, the teachers should still be required to show up for work and not leave until after 4:00pm. If they don’t show up, the lose a day’s pay.
Make them lose a WEEK pay!
While I like the idea of those supporting this foolishness not getting any paid leave I have to say that a LOT of teachers ALSO think this is nuts. My sister is a teacher who calls the holidays what they are (and it is Christmas break not winter break). It doesn’t make sense to punish the teachers for the craziness of the school board.
THEN why don’t the teachers SPEAK UP AND call for those on these school boards, to get FIRED!
cancel the public indoctrination system and go with NON-UNION CO-OPS where the Curriculum is PRESENTED AND OPEN, the ‘teachers’ CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for any misdeeds.
Classes will be multi aged so the older kids can teach basic reading, alphabet, spelling and arithmetic as they progress.
Advanced children will learn at their own rate, and slower learners can be observed to see what makes them want to excel.
under the current sysdumb, all kids are taught to be stupid at the same level.
I like your idea of co- ops. Public school system is so badly corrupted that it needs to be shut down and replaced
with a system that teaches the basics without socialist indoctrination. Let the parents approve what they want their children to be taught.
I forgot where i read it, but one community almost DId that.. Each parent took 8 or so kids in his neighborhood, and taught them one subject THEY knew.. The gal being interviewed said she learned MUCH MORE that way, than in ANY Classroom instruction she had..
“I don’t think really it is the board’s responsibility to be naming these holidays. Either take them off or just adopt whatever the federal and state governments are doing,” board member Ronald Conti said.
Golly! The federal government and states designated many of those holidays. Hence the term “National Holiday”.
If kids can’t celebrate history neither should federal or state workers (Including teachers!) or elected officials. Let’s see how politicians and union members like that idea.
We should vote on any school board named holidays.
HITL,ER raised the Young of hit GERMANY, TO TURN IN THEIR OWN PARENTS and even the JEWISH, WOULD HELP TURN THE WEALTHY OF HIS OWN PEOPLE, GEORGE SAROS, and side with the GERMAN OPPRESSORS.
IF Its a federally recognized holiday, HOW CAN A SCHOOL Say “WE won’t honor it”? If they receive govt funds, THEN THEY DAMN WELL SHOULD recognize every federally supported holiday.. PERIOD!
just explain HOLIDAYS are PAID DAYS THEY DON’T WORK.
days off ARE NOT PAID!
I have a great idea, the communist school boards should be “canceled” and replaced by Conservatives. Problem solved!
GOOD Idea, the SCHOOL Board answers to the hierarchy MARXISTS,in the Communist party of AMERICA” You will Obey, COMRADE!
That is why when i first heard this, MY THOUGHT WAS “Where are the parents in doing a RECALL VOTE on everyone of these marxist loving board members.
OR better yet, that gal who stood up and decried what they were doing, should have immediately said “WE the parents, hereby CALL FOR A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN EACH and everyone of you!”
If there are a few minority hurt and offended feelings because of these special days mentioned on the school calender remember that the name of this country is the ” United States of America, not the ” Diiversity States of America. The thing that indicates that this country is ” The Shiny light upon the Hill. For all immigrants seeking a better life is that they’re coming to America not fleeing from it. The School board should be reminded of this fact…..
When it comes to the deranged, dishonorable, dishonest, unethical, immoral, traitorous Democrats, NOTHING is beyond their insanity.
The Left’s Chutzpah Knows No Bounds
The definition of “chutzpah.” It’s someone killing his parents and then falling on the mercy of the court on account of his being an orphan.
THIS IS INSANE IDEA!!! ANYONE who wants to live in the country needs to accept our holidays as they are.. THEY chose to live here… These are our holidays… they should NOT be canceled out…. WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN’S RIGHTS??? Do Americans NO longer matter!!!! it’s really looking that way… Our country is being torn apart … our worse enemies are within…. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
Exactamundo. HATE OUR nations anthem. HATE our flags. Hate our holidays. THEN GET THE zuckerberg out and move to china!
America should be just like Putin Once told the Muslim immigrants coming to Russia, Putin told the Muslim immigrants, ” Muslims need Russia, Russia, doesn’t need Muslims. ” America doesn’t need immigrants, Immigrants need America . ” Dare we as Americans, he as good as Putin was…..
This has got to stop and regular people need to stand up to these idiots. If we don’t, the US won’t be recognizable in a few years.
When a school board, or a California prosecuting attorney, or any elected official acts to change American values, however, we should rise up together and vote their butts out of office
You have hit upon a basic truth when you said that if the school board members didn’t like America this “anti America board members , most likely Marxist democrats should have, as you said in your comments, should have their sorry butts kicked out and their excuses for not honoring America’s traditional holidays being taken as just a group of ” Hate America, Marxist democrats…
Time to cancel funding.
I suspect that if somebody whined about not celebrating Fuehrer Obama’s birthday they’d have it on the calendar in a nanosecond. Or if a Muslime wanted to celebrate the birthday of the pedophile mass murdering false prophet Muhammad-may pig p*ss be upon him- it would be done in a heartbeat.
You can bet they’ll reconsider when the ACLU and CAIR whine “but what about ramadan, or El-aid, or the like”..
Former President Barack H. Obama, America’s First Blace Race, President, isn’t done with his continuous rant of Anti-American and his disdain for the common citizens of this country. Barack H. Obama, while out of this country once said in regards to the greatness of America, ” I suspect the British think think England is great just like Americans think America is great, ” In other words, what Barack H. Obama was saying, that America wasn’t all that great, this coming from a man elected to the highest office in the land….
We should ask the Democrat party Marxist Squad, what they thing about honoring Anti-American, Barack H. Obama…..
lets drop this school district on a deserted island soooo they can be inclusive with themselves and will need not worry about any holidays anymore.
Drop them into the middle of the atlantic!
no island need be infected or inflicted.
Works for me.
In the early 80s there was a spoof program called QUARK where Captain Quark went around the galaxy picking up space garbage baggies from important ships. The show was prophetic. It had Jean/Gene, A transmute that changed from male to female quite often. A plant that talked, Betty and Betty the clones, (the double mint girls) and a horney robot. All their “holidays” were just numbers. “Let’s celebrate Number 11.” When it was produced, it was meant to be stupid and absurd. Now it is mainstream. No wonder the North Korean girl says the Ivy League schools make North Korea look sane.
Someone please save these idiots from themselves…
How about we REQUIRE A MINIMUM IQ of 165 for school board members, and a COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING of the Constitution.
A pop quiz on the Foundation of the Nation at the beginning of each SB meeting?
1 FAIL and they are GONE permanently and forever barred from public office.
But, Homeschooling has advanced far beyond ‘mommy at home with the kids” to neighborhood Co-ops and and teaching all levels at the same time, Much like the one room schools where INTER-GENERATIONAL COHESION was developed BEFORE government ripped the youth into age divisions.
So, are the massive schools even needed now?
WELL, there is no NEED beyond the unions sucking the dues out of the DRONES.
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To me. HELL NO.. THey are no longer needed…
Since a voting majority of kids come out of school stupider than they went in, brainwashed into leftism, then the present marxist indoctrination system calling itself the ‘education system” needs to be blown up.
I think Mao would be proud of how the progressives/communists are working to change everything, from statues, to school names, streets, buildings, removing holidays from calendars, promoting crt, making all things they don’t agree with racist, and basically changing language. A woman from China described how Mao’s cultural revolution did all this and more at a school board meeting that can be referenced on YouTube, and warned of the Marxist/Communist ways that are being used to implement this nonsense.
The School who removed the traditional names of the Holidays should be reminded that these Holiday are named to honor America’s traditions and so that America’s citizens won’t forget the countries past history. This Quote of Winston Churchill explain the reason why Holiday names are so important to be named as they were. ” A Nation that forgets it’s past has no future . “
In a sizable urban area, one might have over 100 kinds of ethnic heritage. Since the school board pointy heads can’t fit all of their special days on the calendar (don’t think someone didn’t propose that idiocy) they went with the simpler idiocy of pretending that America has no history worth celebrating, unlike EVERY OTHER COUNTRY in the world who are not erasing their history for the benefit of immigrants. As a white person outside the US, try to get any foreign country to erase their holidays named for their heroes because they “offend” you. You’d be laughed out of the room.
IF not sent to jail…
Someone’s feeling may be hurt…… I can empathize and it’s very important especially early in life. When I came to this country at the age of four (legally) I was just learning the language when on the first day in pre kindergarten when taking attendance we were told to respond “present” upon hearing our name. That horrible day is when I found out that an English word can have two totally different meanings. THERE WERE NO PRESENTS!!!!! Every time the door opened I would think NOW! But no……. that was in 1951 and I still have the emotional scars. I cannot get that moment of anticipation out of my mind. So yes, I agree with the school board on this one.
I am sick to death of folks saying “WE can’t do this anymore, in case someone MAY get offended”.
SORRY BUT THERE IS NO LAW or constitutional right, to NOT GET OFFENDED…
Get over it snowflake. Or are you still expecting to get a “present” just for showing up?
I would like toy that your correct in your comments that I read about this School Board removing the names of the Traditional Holidays from the School Calendar in order to not offend those immigrants from other countries such as Snout indicates that Snout must have immigrated from. Every Country, including America has its special days Honoring a special day in their history that all living in America choose to mark on their calender as being important day in the countries History, Did you expect that America would just erase these special traditional Holidays just so they wouldn’t offend those immigrants who willingly on their own came to this country to live, I’m sorry, Snout, but this America which you chose to live with its Special Holidays observed., Marked on its school calender, My advise to immigrants who came to America to become a citizen, “Get Over It, love this country and it’s says or find somewhere else , some other country in which to live.
Holidays are created to celebrate certain things and it is those things which we need to be reminded of. These days there is somebody who will offended by just about anything under the sun, and the sun itself, possibly. To not recognize these days for what that they represent be it political, social, religious, is offensive to those who celebrate those days or even sympathize with then. This is especially true with government proclaimed holidays which are on every calendar, those make the school board sound unAmerican! As to Mr. Conti, the school board did not name the holidays , they are in common use all over. How would ads in the paper read for July Fourth, BIG, DAY OFF SALE! Has quite a thud to it.
“A rose by any other name is still a rose” Same applies to : A holiday by any other name (day off) is still a holiday. If the board approves taking a “day off” with pay, then I would make every day a “day off” and expect to be paid. This sound just like what is going on now: why go to work when you can stay home and make more money thanks to biden
William Shackspear knew of which he spoke about… ” A Rose by any Other Name would Smell just As Sweet ” Semantics, doesn’t change the significance of America’s traditional Holidays and the days marked on the countries calender shouldn’t be eliminated just to appease the Marxist Democrat elite or immigrants who came to this country over all other countries to live, no one forced the immigrants to come to America….Love it or leave it…
President Joe Biden and his handlers didn’t think this thing of offering more money to those on welfare to stay home than they could earn working , of course choose to remain on welfare, Again, maybe the Democrat Marxists knew that humans would stay on welfare if welfare paid them more money than working for their living did and thus deck the U.S. Economy…
I continue to be glad that we choose to home educate our kids. Not only do we call holidays by their proper names but we take off school on our faith’s holidays to put God first.
I feel like I’m living out the novel “1984” which was supposed to be a cautionary tale NOT a how-to manual.
ITS often been said, that when the leftists READ that book, rather than see it as a cautionary tail, THEY SAW IT AS A VISION of the nation they wanted to create.