Why are schools closed for Martin Luther King Jr day?

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Lumet
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Posted on: January 19, 2009 - 1:13pm

I don't get it. This guy lead a movement to get equal rights in government schools but now schools close on his day?

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Posted on: January 20, 2009 - 7:40am #1

Lumet wrote:

I don't get it. This guy lead a movement to get equal rights in government schools but now schools close on his day?

A paid holiday for government workers (and few others), with a built in political correctness factor so it's hard to oppose.

What's not to understand?

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d_goddard
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Posted on: January 22, 2009 - 10:29am #2

I have a dream that some day I won't have to hear that old tired damned I have A Dream speech ever again.

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