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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: MLK Holiday - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 23:05:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 23:05:11 1983
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uicsl!wombat    Oct 13 16:19:00 1983

	I think there should be a holiday for MLK, but I'm not so
sure schools should be closed for it. I'd prefer it if schools
used the day to teach students more about the man and what he stood
for. I don't know how it is in schools other than those in the
Pleasant Plains school district, but our history lessons never
made it past the middle of WW II in any given year (and a lot
of years stopped during WW I). I imagine there are people who
know more about the Civil War than about JFK (I would say the Korean
"conflict", but M*A*S*H took care of that). Let's educate kids
about why a day is a holiday, and make it a holiday for working
parents by leaving the kids in school while they get a day off...
						Wombat
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