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[petmoosie]

The walk is ... refreshing. Or just very cold.

Emily is going to see a play at Adventure Theater as a field trip. I wonder what it is. "Peter Pan" is on stage fairly nearby, and we could go to see that also.

Our school system (Montgomery) is considering canceling classes for Inauguration day. DC has already done it. Prince George's (majority black) has already done it. And Alexandria and Arlington may have already done it. Now, DC should do it; many of their students (and teachers) use the Metro system to get to school and home again. Prince George's wants to acknowledge the first black president. I want Montgomery to do it, since we (my family) are going to the Inauguration. But if Montgomery doesn't, I'll write the note for an absence. What would be bad, is if all the white students left school, and only the black and the Hispanic students went to school (because their parents couldn't get off from work). It couldn't be done as a field trip, because there aren't enough buses (in the world) to get all the high school students, middle school students and elementary school students there. Plus, it really makes much more sense to take the Metro.

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Do schools regularly get canceled for Inauguration?

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

No, if it was regular, they would have taken the day off the calender at the beginning of the year.

I remember having the option to go for Reagan's second one (bitter, bitter cold), but I was in a private school and in Prince George's not Montgomery. We did go downtown for Pope John Paul II's visit (I believe that school was canceled). Several important events (in the view of the school) were shown to us on TV; the signing of the Camp David accords, the announcement of the election of Pope John Paul I and that same year Pope John Paul II.

I chaperoned a trip for the 200th anniversary of the Constitution (held in 1987). I believe that President Reagan gave a speech.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Popes are important to the school? Is this a Catholic school?

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

The one I went to as a child was Catholic, yes.

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

I went to a Catholic school as a child; Emily is going to a public school. There are also nearly 35 years between us, and she lives in an older and much more integrated neighborhood than I did.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I got unstuck in time for a bit there!

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

The schools are going to see massive absenteeism anyway at this point. It's not really the Democrat vs. Republican thing (although MD and Montgomery county went fairly strongly Democratic as usual). It's the history of electing a black man, and the large margins of the election (compared with the most recent ones). The discussions of days off were similar for Reagan.

Tomorrow, the school board is meeting and discussing it and voting on it.

The trip for the 200th anniversary was at a small private school, not the public school system.

The public school system is such an unwieldy beast. So many students, teachers, aides, buses, lunches, etc. to be considered.

What are the federal employees doing?

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

In 2005: They had this rule in place.

NOTE: Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005, falls on a Thursday. An employee who works in the District of Columbia, Montgomery or Prince George's Counties in Maryland, Arlington or Fairfax Counties in Virginia, or the cities of Alexandria or Falls Church in Virginia, and who is regularly scheduled to perform nonovertime work on Inauguration Day, is entitled to a holiday. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(c).) There is no in-lieu-of-holiday for employees who are not regularly scheduled to work on Inauguration Day.

It was a holiday!

This year, 2009: NOTE: Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, falls on a Tuesday. An employee who works in the District of Columbia, Montgomery or Prince George's Counties in Maryland, Arlington or Fairfax Counties in Virginia, or the cities of Alexandria or Falls Church in Virginia, and who is regularly scheduled to perform nonovertime work on Inauguration Day, is entitled to a holiday. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(c).) There is no in-lieu-of-holiday for employees who are not regularly scheduled to work on Inauguration Day.

Same deal!!