One of the joys of being a Boston public-school parent
By adamg - Mon, 06/13/2005 - 3:21pm.
Reminder to self and wife: Next year, on making a doctor's appointment, make sure it isn't on Bunker Hill Day so we don't have to worry about who's going to watch over the kid because school is closed since Bunker Hill Day is, of course, an official municipal holiday (right up there with St. Patrick's Day Evacuation Day).
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Sorry to hear about your
Sorry to hear about your daycare issues Adam but where is the municipal pride?
btw- I read in the Boston Business Journal today that the Bunker Hill Monument will be getting a $3.7 million restoration.
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/06/13/daily10.html
In my state government days,
we used to refer to Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day as "hack holidays" because the only people who are even aware of their existence tend to be the state or municipal employees who get the day off - of course, along with the regular folks like yourself who are inconvenienced by the unexpected government shutdown!
Ladies and Gents,These are
Ladies and Gents,
These are the holidays we should actually care about. Bunker Hill day celebrates a battle of incredible importance to the City of Boston and the US. Evacuation Day celebrates the liberation of Boston from control by the Crown. These are important in much more tangible ways than Memorial Day or Labor Day or Columbus Day (not that Mem and Labor Days shouldn't be celebrated). Bostonians and residents of Mass should be more educated on their importance. It's shameful that they're so ridiculed.
Yes, but ...
The fact that just one city commemorates them can cause problems, because as much as we'd like to deny it, Boston really isn't the hub around which the universe revolves. Perhaps if they were state holidays, like Patriots Day, it might be different, but otherwise, what they mainly do is really inconvenience parents who, unlike us, both work and so wouldn't be able to fully appreciate the holidays anyway.
Holidays mark important events
I agree that these holidays are more important than people give them credit for. If these events didn`t happen there probably wouldn`t be a United States.
I lived in Boston for 30 years and was never actually inconvenienced by either holiday so I can`t relate...but if you say so.
When we drove the British out that was the last time this area was occupied by a foreign power and America was born. We should be proud that these events happened here.
btw- I wonder what great contributions to society Dave makes that he can so harshly judge working class people?