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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 925611" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>If Dr. King was alive today, I think he would question the wisdom of having a so-called holiday named after him. </p><p></p><p>It is only a "holiday" in the sense that government offices, schools, banks and the Post Offices are all closed. For the majority of working Americans, it is not really a holiday at all. And for working parents with school age children, it can actually be a burden to have to arrange for child care on what would otherwise be a school day.</p><p></p><p>Dr King was a great man and he should be honored and remembered, but shutting down the schools and not delivering the mail is a poor way to accomplish that. Perhaps a <em>better</em> way to honor him would be to keep the schools open and have them spend the <em>entire day </em>educating the children on the history of the civil rights movement instead of just closing the school doors and letting the kids stay home and watch TV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 925611, member: 14668"] If Dr. King was alive today, I think he would question the wisdom of having a so-called holiday named after him. It is only a "holiday" in the sense that government offices, schools, banks and the Post Offices are all closed. For the majority of working Americans, it is not really a holiday at all. And for working parents with school age children, it can actually be a burden to have to arrange for child care on what would otherwise be a school day. Dr King was a great man and he should be honored and remembered, but shutting down the schools and not delivering the mail is a poor way to accomplish that. Perhaps a [I]better[/I] way to honor him would be to keep the schools open and have them spend the [I]entire day [/I]educating the children on the history of the civil rights movement instead of just closing the school doors and letting the kids stay home and watch TV. [/QUOTE]
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