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FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: whoa ()
Date: January 20, 2014 04:49AM

are classes cancelled today???

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: January 20, 2014 04:51AM

Yes, its MLK day.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: whoa ()
Date: January 20, 2014 04:55AM

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Yes, its MLK day.

Milk day? wtf does that maen?

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: January 20, 2014 05:47AM

Most likely troll post. Any kid or semi-involved parent of a kid would know this was a scheduled holiday.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: whoa ()
Date: January 20, 2014 08:14AM

went to school this morning doors wuz like loocked cuz its milk day? wtf???

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Fat Albert ()
Date: January 20, 2014 08:20AM

The OP...
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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Democrats killed MLK Jr. ()
Date: January 20, 2014 08:46AM

Yeah, liberal public schools are closed because liberals murdered a black dude who stood up for the Constitution and Christianity. Those are the two things liberals hate the most in the world.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: rebel ()
Date: January 20, 2014 09:14AM

It's Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. It's been a VA state holiday since before M L Koon was even born.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Head Nigger ()
Date: January 20, 2014 09:15AM

Fuck You Crackers!!!
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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: i found your picture ()
Date: January 20, 2014 11:15AM

Democrats killed MLK Jr. Wrote:
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> Yeah, liberal public schools are closed because
> liberals murdered a black dude who stood up for
> the Constitution and Christianity. Those are the
> two things liberals hate the most in the world.
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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: January 20, 2014 11:47AM

Democrats killed MLK Jr. Wrote:
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> Yeah, liberal public schools are closed because
> liberals murdered a black dude who stood up for
> the Constitution and Christianity. Those are the
> two things liberals hate the most in the world.

King was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers seeking better pay and working conditions. It was part of his Poor People's Campaign.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: yes ()
Date: January 20, 2014 12:07PM

whoa Wrote:
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> are classes cancelled today???


Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (MLK Day).

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King's birthday, January 15. The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.

HISTORY OF MLK DAY
The idea of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations.After King's death, United States Representative John Conyers (a Democrat from Michigan) and United States Senator Edward Brooke (a Republican from Massachusetts) introduced a bill in Congress to make King's birthday a national holiday. The bill first came to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979. However, it fell five votes short of the number needed for passage. Two of the main arguments mentioned by opponents were that a paid holiday for federal employees would be too expensive, and that a holiday to honor a private citizen would be contrary to longstanding tradition (King had never held public office). Only two other people have national holidays in the United States honoring them: George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
Soon after, the King Center turned to support from the corporate community and the general public. The success of this strategy was cemented when musician Stevie Wonder released the single "Happy Birthday" to popularize the campaign in 1980 and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Six million signatures were collected for a petition to Congress to pass the law, termed by a 2006 article in The Nation as "the largest petition in favor of an issue in U.S. history."


Ronald Reagan and Coretta Scott King at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day signing ceremony
At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill, proposed by Representative Katie Hall of Indiana, creating a federal holiday to honor King. It was observed for the first time on January 20, 1986.
The bill established the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission to oversee observance of the holiday, and Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife, was made a member of this commission for life by President George H. W. Bush in May 1989.


RELUCTANCE TO OBSERVE MLK DAY

Senators Jesse Helms and John Porter East (both North Carolina Republicans) led opposition to the bill and questioned whether King was important enough to receive such an honor. Helms criticized King's opposition to the Vietnam War and accused him of espousing "action-oriented Marxism". Helms led a filibuster against the bill and on October 3, 1983, submitted a 300-page document to the Senate alleging that King had associations with communists. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared the document a "packet of filth", threw it on the Senate floor and stomped on it. Likewise, King's family expressed opposition to the measure.
President Ronald Reagan originally opposed the holiday, citing cost concerns. He later signed the measure, after it passed with a 338 to 90 margin in favor in the House of Representatives.
Sen. John McCain (Republican of Arizona) voted against the creation of the holiday to honor King, and later defended Arizona Republican Governor Evan Mecham's rescission of the state holiday in honor of King created by his Democratic predecessor. After his opposition grew increasingly untenable, McCain reversed his position, and encouraged his home state of Arizona to recognize the holiday despite opposition from Mecham. During the 2008 presidential campaign, McCain was criticized for his initial opposition to the measure.
Former Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, created the holiday by executive order just before he left office in 1986, but Mecham, armed with an attorney general's opinion that Babbitt's order was illegal, rescinded it days after he took office. Mecham subsequently issued his own executive order, setting aside the third Sunday in January as an unpaid holiday to honor King, but it never was recognized by supporters of a paid holiday. Mecham was impeached and removed from office for unrelated actions in 1988.
In 1989, the Arizona state legislature replaced Columbus Day with the King holiday. In 1990 the National Football League threatened to move the Super Bowl that was planned to be in Arizona in 1993. This same year, Arizonans were given the opportunity to vote to observe an MLK holiday. McCain successfully appealed to former President Ronald Reagan to support the holiday. The state legislature passed a measure to keep both Columbus Day and Martin Luther King Day, but it was too late as 76% of voters rejected the King holiday. Consequently, the state “lost $500 million and the Super Bowl” which moved to Pasadena, California.
In 1991, the New Hampshire legislature created "Civil Rights Day" and abolished "Fast Day". In 1999, "Civil Rights Day" was officially changed to "Martin Luther King Day," becoming the last state to have a holiday named after Dr. King.
On May 2, 2000, South Carolina governor Jim Hodges signed a bill to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday an official state holiday. South Carolina was the last state to recognize the day as a paid holiday for all state employees. Prior to this, employees could choose between celebrating Martin Luther King Day or one of three Confederate holidays.
Overall, in 2007, 33% of employers gave employees the day off, a 2% increase over the previous year. There was little difference in observance by large and small employers: 33% for firms with over 1,000 employees; and, 32% for firms with under 1,000 employees. The observance is most popular among nonprofit organizations and least popular among factories and manufacturers.[18] The reasons for this have varied, ranging from the recent addition of the holiday, to its occurrence just two weeks after the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, when many businesses are closed for part or sometimes all of the week. Additionally, many schools and places of higher education are closed for classes; others remain open but may hold seminars or celebrations of King's message. Some factories and manufacturers used MLK Day as a floating or movable holiday. Many business that used to close on Presidents' Day now stay open on that day and close on MLK Day instead.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES FOR MLK DAY
While all states now observe the holiday, some did not name the day after King. In Utah, the holiday was known as "Human Rights Day" until 2000, when the Utah State Legislature voted to change the name of the holiday from Human Rights Day to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In that same year Governor Michael O. Leavitt signed the bill officially naming the holiday "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day".
In Virginia, it was known as Lee-Jackson-King Day, combining King's birthday with the established Lee-Jackson Day. The incongruous nature of the holiday, which simultaneously celebrated the lives of Confederate Army generals and a civil rights icon, did not escape the notice of Virginia lawmakers. In 2000, Lee-Jackson Day was moved to the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday in its own right.
Mississippi still shares this celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on the third Monday of January and Robert E. Lee's birthday January 19.
In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. and General Robert E. Lee share the paid state holiday on the third Monday of January.
In Arizona, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is known as "Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day"; while in New Hampshire, its official name is "Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Day".

KING DAY OF SERVICE
In honor of the Martin Luther King Day of Service, President Barack Obama serves lunch in the dining room at So Others Might Eat, a soup kitchen in Washington, January 18, 2010.
The national Martin Luther King Day of Service was started by former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis, who co-authored the King Holiday and Service Act. The federal legislation challenges Americans to transform the King Holiday into a day of citizen action volunteer service in honor of Dr. King. The federal legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 23, 1994. Since 1996, the annual Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service has been the largest event in the nation honoring Dr. King.
Several other universities and organizations around the U.S., such as Arizona State University, Greater DC Cares and City Year, participate in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. In honor of MLK, hundreds of Volunteer Centers, and volunteers across the country donate their time to make a difference on this day.

MLK DAY BEING CELEBRATED OUTSIDE THE USA
One place outside the United States where Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed with equal importance is in the Japanese city of Hiroshima under mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who holds a special banquet at the mayor's office as an act of unifying his city's call for peace with King's message of human rights.
The city of Toronto, Canada, is another city that has officially recognized Martin Luther King Jr. Day, although it is not a paid holiday in Toronto, and all government services and businesses remain open.
In 1984, during a visit by the U.S. Sixth Fleet, Navy chaplain Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff conducted the first Israeli Presidential ceremony in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, held in the President's Residence, Jerusalem. Mrs. Aura Herzog, wife of Israel's then-President Chaim Herzog, noted that she was especially proud to host this special event, because Israel had a national forest in honor of Dr. King, and that Israel and Dr. King shared the idea of "dreams". Resnicoff continued this theme in his remarks during the ceremony, quoting the verse from Genesis, spoken by the brothers of Joseph when they saw their brother approach, "Behold the dreamer comes; let us slay him and throw him into the pit, and see what becomes of his dreams." Resnicoff noted that, from time immemorial, there have been those who thought they could kill the dream by slaying the dreamer, but – as the example of Dr. King's life shows – such people are always wrong.

(the above information is quoted in context from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day). Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.3 million in the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: A. Student ()
Date: January 20, 2014 12:10PM

I waited at the fucking bus stop for 45 minutes this morning. It wasn't until somebody from the house by our bus stop came out and asked what I was doing there that I found out we didn't have school today.

It would have been nice if they had reminded us on Friday that we didn't have school today. Sure it was on the calendar, but nobody reminded me. I'm an FCPS student, I need my hand held and ass wiped every step of the way.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Idk I don't understand ()
Date: January 20, 2014 12:47PM

A. Student Wrote:
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> I waited at the fucking bus stop for 45 minutes
> this morning. It wasn't until somebody from the
> house by our bus stop came out and asked what I
> was doing there that I found out we didn't have
> school today.
>
> It would have been nice if they had reminded us on
> Friday that we didn't have school today. Sure it
> was on the calendar, but nobody reminded me. I'm
> an FCPS student, I need my hand held and ass wiped
> every step of the way.


I don't understand why you would think the schools would be open once federal holiday.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: January 20, 2014 12:51PM

It's just the OP returning to stir things up.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Liberals murdered King ()
Date: January 20, 2014 01:02PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> Democrats killed MLK Jr. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yeah, liberal public schools are closed because
> > liberals murdered a black dude who stood up for
> > the Constitution and Christianity. Those are
> the
> > two things liberals hate the most in the world.
>
> King was in Memphis to support striking sanitation
> workers seeking better pay and working conditions.
> It was part of his Poor People's Campaign.

So what? Liberals don't give a damn about the poor. Conservatives do. Liberals murdered King. Hoover was obsessed with him and Johnson had him taken out. Even his family knows Ray was not the killer.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: Miss Krabappel ()
Date: January 20, 2014 02:37PM

Idk I don't understand Wrote:
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> A. Student Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I waited at the fucking bus stop for 45 minutes
> > this morning. It wasn't until somebody from the
> > house by our bus stop came out and asked what I
> > was doing there that I found out we didn't have
> > school today.
> >
> > It would have been nice if they had reminded us
> on
> > Friday that we didn't have school today. Sure
> it
> > was on the calendar, but nobody reminded me.
> I'm
> > an FCPS student, I need my hand held and ass
> wiped
> > every step of the way.
>
>
> I don't understand why you would think the schools
> would be open once federal holiday.


So parents can have some alone time without the kiddos around.

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Re: FFX County schools cancelled Mon 1/20????
Posted by: whoa ()
Date: January 25, 2014 03:54AM

wtf happened this week? i wated at bus stop for hours & walkeed to skool. doors were all lockeed. did we have thee week off for milk day?

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