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Posted: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 11:38AM
School District To Ditch Veterans Day
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CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. (WBBM) -- School board members in District 300 have taken away a school holiday next year claiming students don’t understand the meaning behind the day. WBBM’s suburban bureau chief Julie Mann has more from the newsroom of the Daily Herald.
Veterans Day will no longer be a day off for students in the Carpentersville’s based School District 300.
School Board members approved the school calendar for the new school year and took November 11th away from the list of school holidays and voted to seek a wavier to hold classes that day.
According to the Daily Herald, the move met with the approval of several area veterans who attending the meeting some who noted Veterans Day is an observance not a holiday.
Students in School District 300, instead of having November 11th off, will be in class and will honor veteran’s during class work that day.
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