"Attendance will be very low that day," Regnier said in the petition. "Kids whose families have travel plans will have to change their plans or be marked absent. Kids and teachers will feel annoyed, and kids won't get to learn anything or have a party with all of their friends (because of the low attendance)."
"And that spark came from Isaac this summer, who read the calendar and he wrote to a lot of people and said, you know, why are we doing this?" said Micheal Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers.
"Yes, I thought I would lead to it, and I did," Regnier said. "A lot of people at school were really proud of me for bringing up this topic...Woo-hoo!"
"Because they view life at a different set of lens than we do, and if we're not careful, we can miss important insights from our youth," Adams said.
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