(Pa) Greensburg Salem's use of traditional school holiday names draws dissent
Tradition trumped inclusiveness this week as the Greensburg Salem School Board (Pa) selected holiday names for use on the district’s 2022-23 school calendar.
The board voted 8-1 to use time-honored names for three holidays when students get to stay home:
Christmas Break, Easter Break and Columbus Day.
The vote came after former board member Lynna Thomas asked school directors to stick with alternate holiday titles that had been proposed by district administrators:
Holiday Break, Spring Break and Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Thomas suggested using the traditional holiday names “feels like a blatant disregard for some of the members of our community.” She argued selecting the alternate names would “acknowledge that not every member of our community celebrates the same holidays.
“Since we know better, we should try to do better. Why not go with more general language?”
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/greensburg-salems-use-of-traditional-school-holiday-names-draws-dissent/
