I'm not sure I agree with having school on MLK day. Administrators back their reasoning up by saying that if we were at home, we probably wouldn't be learning anything about MLK. That's true, but it's really dumb then if we barely do anything MLK related then during the day. We had a one-hour delay schedule so we could watch and movie and then be told how humans are so innately evil (which I completely disagree with). The school could get away with that excuse of us learning about MLK at school if we actually did spend the majority of our time on it, but besides losing a few minutes from each regular class, it was a normal school day. Teachers make a huge deal about it, but they don't follow what they preach then, and we move right along. It irks me.
What I thought was REALLY pathetic though was that at least three people during the day didn't recognize the abbreviation for Martin Luther King Jr.! I was shocked! That really says something that our district doesn't grant us MLK day as a holiday so they can teach us about him, but then the students don't even recognize the shortened name. That pretty much sums up the difference between how much they emphasize prejudice and how much effort the teachers truly put into educating us about it.
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