Re: How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?

Posted by brian lockhart on 9/13/07

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My question is why is this being compared to MLK? In my area
every public elementary school does something for Veterans
Day. I wouldn't say that observing MLK's birthday is
considered mandatory by administrators at least not in the
public school setting. Be proud of what you do for VFW and
share the ideas with the other schools in the area. It sounds
like a problem in the private sector to me.

On 11/21/02, Richard M. Long wrote:
> On 11/04/02, Upset with Spineless Administrators wrote:
>> In years past, my children marched in Veterans Day
>> parades as part of Cub Scout and other organizations.
>> I wasnt there to see them...I had school.
>> Absolutely shameful that schools do not annually
>> observe Veterans Day.
>>
>> My biggest outrage: We are mandated seemingly
>> under penalty of law to incorporate the life and
>> achievements of Martin Luther King into our classes
>> each
>> MLK day, yet nothing, and I mean nothing, comes from
>> our administration and school board with regard to
>> Veterans Day.
>> I make it a point every Veterans Day and Dec. 7th Pearl
>> Harbor Day to relate to my classes the history, the
>> meaning, the relevance, the honor due the men and
>> women who sacrificed their lives for our country. I
>> spend
>> EVERY class period on those days "lest we forget."
>> I also write to the administration every year asking why
>> Veterans Day is so callously "overlooked." Never a
>> reply!!
>>
>> This country has a long way to go in securing our future
>> by preserving the past.
>> Anyone else have this same sense of angst and
>> urgency?
>> My anger spilleth over.
> At our school we put on a schoolwide assembly at 11AM on
> Veterans day. We include a mixed chorus, Brownie and Cub
> scout troops and all sorts of activities to promote an
> atmosphere where we THANK and HONOR the Vets. We have done
> this for 7 years. The assembly takes about 45-50 minutes
and
> afterwards we invite the audience to lunch. It is also
video
> taped by the local access channel for viewing by those
unable
> to attend. Of course NONE of the public schools in our area
> do anything for the Vets. We are a private school grades 1-
> 8. It is shameful that so little is made of Vets day
> elsewhere..

Posts on this thread, including this one

• How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?, 11/04/02, by Upset with Spineless Administrators.
• Re: How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?, 11/21/02, by Richard M. Long.
• Re: How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?, 10/04/03, by Ryan.
• Re: How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?, 11/08/03, by Sheila.
• Re: How Does Your School Recognize Veterans Day?, 9/13/07, by brian lockhart.