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Virginia School Board Considers Axing Veterans Day Holiday To Make Room For Islamic, Hindu Ones

Stafford County school officials are considering an academic calendar that would remove Veterans Day as a school holiday.

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One of Virginia’s wealthiest counties is considering removing Veterans Day as a student holiday for next year’s school calendar. The potential move comes after years of the county increasingly giving students and staff days off to recognize the holidays of foreign cultures.

Stafford County School Board officials held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss (among other agenda items) calendar proposals for the 2027-2028 academic school year. While one of the proposed calendars recognizes Veterans Day as a staff and student holiday, the other does not. A draft calendar for the 2028-2029 school year has also been put forward but does not denote Veterans Day as a student/staff holiday since it falls on a Saturday that year.

The calendars were seemingly drafted by a calendar committee comprised of Stafford County parents, students, community leaders, staff members, and “building administrators from existing advisory committees.”

According to the Fredericksburg Free Press (FFP), the potential move to adjust the county’s academic calendar comes as Stafford officials struggle to meet the commonwealth’s requirement that a standard school year “shall be 180 instructional days or 990 instructional hours.” While the county has........

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