Watching the news this morning, there was a story about school districts that are not taking off Martin Luther King Day as a holiday this year. Because of unusually heavy snowfall's this year, these school districts are using MLK Day to makeup for snow days they have had to take.
Outraged over the lack of reverence shown to the memory of Dr. King and the civil rights struggle, it was reported that there were calls for parents to pull their children out of school for the day. These calls for a boycott were led by...wait for it...Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. There's a shock for you.
Somehow, I don't think that the legacy Dr. King wanted to leave was that it is okay to skip school. Much of the civil rights struggle was about gaining access to education. You know, the whole Brown v. Board of Education thing.
The Reverends Al and Jesse could have campaigned for special class sessions on civil rights on MLK Day for schools that were in session. Instead, they argued for a boycott of education. Maybe it is just me, but the priorities seem a little screwed up.
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