Petition Calls for Resignation of New Jersey School Board Members After Holiday Names Replaced With Generic ‘Day Off’
New Jersey | June 14, 2021
A petition has been launched calling for the resignation of school board members in a New Jersey county over their vote last week to remove holiday names from the school calendar and replace them with a generic “day off” designation.
The petition, created on the platform Change.org by a user identified as Thomas Tatem on Friday, seeks to build support among residents of Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, for the immediate resignation of Superintendent Jennifer Fano and all of the Board of Education members.
While the petition does not explicitly reference the board’s Thursday decision to label holidays generically, the comments of some of its 2,300 signatories make the context clear.
“Now they’ve cancelled our holidays,” wrote Laura Assante of Randolph Township. “How will students learn about the significance of these days if our board doesn’t even deem them important enough to keep on the calendar? Enough! It’s time now to cancel the BOE and get a new, honest administration in place who values our children and community.”
“I signed because this woke nonsense of erasing everything that has importance to different religions has to be stopped. Today, it is at Randolph. Where will it be tomorrow?” wrote Deborah Midkiff of Randolph Township. “We are all capable of living along side neighbors of different religions knowing that they are celebrating days that are special to them just as we celebrate ours!”..
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)