Is this even legal?

[-Setro-]

So, my school marched last sunday for Columbus day (regardless of it being the sunday after that), and they say that whoever marched gets next wednesday off. Whoever didn't march in the parade has to do work all day, inside the library in the school.
Is this even a legal move? It's surely a richard move on the school's behalf, but I don't think this is even legal in the education system.
I want to stay home- only like 3 people didn't march, including me, meaning only 3 of us out of the whole class of 30+ people will be doing work.

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[HowlingBanshee]

Just say something like Columbus day being disrespectful towards Hispanic people (It's basically celebrating their previous decimation). A school can't force a holiday on you, especially if it's controversial.

[Foxscotch]

Just say something like Columbus day being disrespectful towards Hispanic people (It's basically celebrating their previous decimation).

do you mean native americans?? hispanic people were the ones killing the natives...

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

stay home anyway and say that its unfair for them to force a holiday on you and give people who celebrated it a bonus

[Bisjac]

Wear a Pro Haitian slave t-shirt. If you have to celebrate Columbus, then celebrate him.

[Foxscotch]

anyway, just don't go to school that day. if you do go it's just gonna make your teachers mad so who cares. you'll be doing yourself and them a favor

[Freek]

columbus day is handicapped anyways.
"hey lets celebrate when someone 600 years ago found a country inhabited by people already"

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do you mean native americans?? hispanic people were the ones killing the natives...

Uh
Hispanics are a more recent sub classification determined by the mixing of Spaniards, Africans, Portugese,  and Native Americans races during the colonization of South America wherin the primary cultural heritage derrived itself from a combination of these cultures regionally, there is no one specific Hispanic group and it didn't even exist until after the colonization processes. If you mean that Western forced the native from there land etc then that would be more accurate yes.
In official racial categorizations, Hispanic is not given as an option and the people unfortunate enough to be ascribed to a nonindicative lable such as this are forced to catergorize into "white" "native american" and "mixed race" depending on what they feel is most appropriatel even if it doesnt culturally or socially apply to them, however it is all arbitrary bullstuff categorization in order to determine how ok it is to discriminate against someone. :/

[jonnyman5656]

Christopher landed in America in 1492
The Vikings landed before him and left
The Native Americans were there before the vikings
Why is it a holiday? Don't ask me.

[HowlingBanshee]

do you mean native americans?? hispanic people were the ones killing the natives...

That may very well be true, I'm just an European, I just know there is some controversy around it, and I thought it was that.

[Foxscotch]

Hispanics are a more recent sub classification determined by the mixing of Spaniards, Africans, Portugese,  and Native Americans races during the colonization of South America

oh
I guess I always assumed it just meant spanish people lol. regardless, columbus still had nothing to do with killing hispanics

[Oasis]

Christopher landed in America in 1492
The Vikings landed before him and left
The Native Americans were there before the vikings
Why is it a holiday? Don't ask me.

It's a holiday because a bunch of white Americans decided that kids needed a cool white-skinned role model.

[Blockzillahead]

make sure 2 work extra hard setro lmaooo

[XR-7]

It's a holiday because a bunch of white Americans decided that kids needed a cool white-skinned role model.

Vikings are cooler than Columbus.

[Oasis]

Vikings are cooler than Columbus.

Much, muuuuch cooler than Columbus.

Plus too, they made the voyage in ships that shouldn't have been in the open ocean. Columbus did it in ships that had constantly been making long open ocean journeys.