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Columbus Deserves his Day
By Ari Kaufman (10/09/06)

It's every public schoolteacher's most dreaded former holiday. Columbus will always have his day in my heart and thankfully in some cities have not fallen prey to the "revised" holiday schedule where Hispanic Heritage Month and Black History Month take students out of test prep classrooms for "multi cultural" madness and diverrsity training.

My letter to the editor, which failed to be accepted by the big city papers this year, is below:

Where have you gone Christopher Columbus Day? A nation no longer celebrates you.

New York, Chicago and Boston seem to be the last major cities who give students and workers a day off to remember the founder of our country.

In Los Angeles, where I was a schoolteacher for three years, Columbus was not celebrated; he was vilified as a murderer by most teachers. Instead of giving him his deserved day (as he had for many years until recently), at L.A. public schools and universities, Columbus Day has been traded straight up for Cesar Chavez day in order to remember the Mexican labor leader. There are grandiose celebrations to boot, much as there are on Martin Luther King Day, the only other day we honor a sole individual.

President's Day has fallen off the calendar at most universities, although (for now) it is still celebrated in most public schools.

As for Columbus, he is on figurative and historical life support. Colleges, if the day off is given, call it "Fall Holiday." And while in Berkeley last March, I couldn't help but stare incredulously at a parking meter which denoted Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

Only in Berkeley? Well, maybe not anymore.

Ari Kaufman

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A California teacher for five years, Ari Kaufman now works as a military historian in Central Indiana and is an Associate Fellow at the Sagamore Institute in Indianapolis. Kaufman is the author of "Reclamation," a book on educational reform. Access his archived work at: www.ajkauf.com
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