1SG Private RallyPoint Member104947<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Does anyone think it is wrong that schools are using Good Friday as a snow day makeup and MLK day was not? Before anyone makes this conversation a race discussion, I am married to a woman of color. I want to know people's thoughts on the change of focus in the values in our country. One man died for all man's sins and the other was a great civil rights leader. Thoughts?Good Friday vs MLK Day2014-04-17T23:23:00-04:001SG Private RallyPoint Member104947<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Does anyone think it is wrong that schools are using Good Friday as a snow day makeup and MLK day was not? Before anyone makes this conversation a race discussion, I am married to a woman of color. I want to know people's thoughts on the change of focus in the values in our country. One man died for all man's sins and the other was a great civil rights leader. Thoughts?Good Friday vs MLK Day2014-04-17T23:23:00-04:002014-04-17T23:23:00-04:00MSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member131200<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Uhhh. Who are you? Do you not wanna show your face or name because you KNOW this will end up a race discussion? I dunno. That's my answer. Hope it helped.Response by MSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made May 20 at 2014 8:04 PM2014-05-20T20:04:55-04:002014-05-20T20:04:55-04:00CSM Private RallyPoint Member131450<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Old Thread is Old! But I'll bite.<br /><br />MLK Day is a Federal Holiday; Good Friday is not. It's that simple.Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made May 21 at 2014 12:14 AM2014-05-21T00:14:19-04:002014-05-21T00:14:19-04:00SFC Private RallyPoint Member132284<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How is asking the difference between a religious holiday and a federal holiday a race issue? It's a simple question, and deserves a simple answer. 1SG Whitman beat me to the punch; MLK day is a federally recognized holiday while Good Friday is not.Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 21 at 2014 10:32 PM2014-05-21T22:32:46-04:002014-05-21T22:32:46-04:00CW3 Private RallyPoint Member154269<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think the original backbone-less poster said what he said because he was specifically picking MLK Day and not some other holiday, like Columbus Day, and knew it would turn into a race discussion anyway. There are plenty of those who still look at us black folk as something less than human and undeserving of equal treatment.<br /><br />Plus, the hyper-religious want us all to live under their rules anyway. My next door neighbor is Muslim, and objected to me and the wife eating dinner out on our deck during Ramadan. I laughed at him. One of my sisters, when I was back home in Rhode Island, insisted I not order a steak off the menu because it was Friday during Lent (I'm *not* Catholic). I laughed at her.Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 14 at 2014 12:44 PM2014-06-14T12:44:47-04:002014-06-14T12:44:47-04:00MAJ Private RallyPoint Member154272<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I read the first 2 sentences and stopped at "one died for our sins". A bit presumptuous perhaps? There's a few billion people in this world who would find that statement completely wrong (including every Jew and Muslim and Atheist currently serving). I would also suggest that MLK died for our sins as a country, if we're going to bring that into the discussion.Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 14 at 2014 12:48 PM2014-06-14T12:48:12-04:002014-06-14T12:48:12-04:00SCPO Private RallyPoint Member154295<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Educational calendars are set up thruogh a calendar committe composed of school based personnel and community members. The proposed calendar is them open for public comment before radifocation by the school board. This question plays little relevance across the country, it sounds like a specific regional issue. Where I am, we have no snow days built into the calendar, if it snows we are open. If you don't want to send your kid to school--call them in sick. If it snows so much we cancel school, we make it up in June. <br />Snow days are not religious or secular issues. They should simply be a safety issue.Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 14 at 2014 1:05 PM2014-06-14T13:05:15-04:002014-06-14T13:05:15-04:00PO2 Rocky Kleeger154317<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I guess that would depend on how religious you are. MLK day is an American holiday to commemorate a man in US history - whether you like him, or not. Good Friday is a religious holy day in remembrance of something that not everyone believes.<br /><br />That's the differenceResponse by PO2 Rocky Kleeger made Jun 14 at 2014 1:54 PM2014-06-14T13:54:01-04:002014-06-14T13:54:01-04:00MAJ Jim Woods154696<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I suspect that even MLK was not in favor of having his day take the place of Good Friday.Response by MAJ Jim Woods made Jun 14 at 2014 11:28 PM2014-06-14T23:28:28-04:002014-06-14T23:28:28-04:00CW3 Private RallyPoint Member158032<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Furthermore, if ANY public school is using Good Friday as a holiday, they're wrong. Good Friday is not a Federal or State civil holiday, it's a religious holiday. If your local private, Catholic school wants to take it off, I don't have an issue with that.<br /><br />Public schools should not be taking religious holidays off anyway, and it's just wrong to go straight to MLK Day when other options are available. It's not an either-or choice. If a school district needs to make up snow days, they can reduce Spring Break or go longer in the summer or both. There is no need to compare a civil holiday with a religious holiday.<br /><br />Even if we take the OP at his word (something I doubt, but I'll get to that in a moment), about being married to a woman of color, why go right to MLK Day when there are plenty of other options???Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 18 at 2014 6:34 PM2014-06-18T18:34:49-04:002014-06-18T18:34:49-04:00SGT Jay Ehrenfeld269839<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The blacks want this holiday will be Mon makeup period me a few think it should be a normal day we have go to school on president's day so I don't believe he should have special day period. Then school should be openResponse by SGT Jay Ehrenfeld made Oct 8 at 2014 6:07 PM2014-10-08T18:07:13-04:002014-10-08T18:07:13-04:00CW5 Private RallyPoint Member269842<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>MLK Day is a federal holiday; Good Friday is not. That makes it an easy decision, I would say.Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 8 at 2014 6:07 PM2014-10-08T18:07:15-04:002014-10-08T18:07:15-04:002014-04-17T23:23:00-04:00