NYC removes Columbus Day from school calendar

[We Never Know]

New York City public schools removed Columbus Day from its calendar of days off for students in the next academic year and replaced it with “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day,” according to a release from the Department of Education on Tuesday.

Students will not have class on Oct. 11, but instead of observing Columbus Day, it will be in observance of Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.

NYC removes Columbus Day from school calendar | WGN-TV

 

[VoidCat]

Good. He was a genocidal guy who believed the world to be pair shaped from what I remember learning.

 

[Valjean]

He was a vicious, tribal, racist torturer.

 

[SomeRandom]

Good

 

[The Hammer]

New York City public schools removed Columbus Day from its calendar of days off for students in the next academic year and replaced it with “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day,” according to a release from the Department of Education on Tuesday.

Students will not have class on Oct. 11, but instead of observing Columbus Day, it will be in observance of Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.

NYC removes Columbus Day from school calendar | WGN-TV

Cool. In WA we renamed it Indigenous People's day, afaik

 

[Stevicus]

New York City public schools removed Columbus Day from its calendar of days off for students in the next academic year and replaced it with “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day,” according to a release from the Department of Education on Tuesday.

Students will not have class on Oct. 11, but instead of observing Columbus Day, it will be in observance of Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.

NYC removes Columbus Day from school calendar | WGN-TV

I thought they would have done that years ago. A lot of districts have already removed it.