NJ parent starts petition demanding school board members resign after removing holiday names from calendar

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NJ parent starts petition demanding school board members resign after removing holiday names from calendar
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Tom Tatem, a New Jersey father of four who created a petition demanding Randolph Township school board members resign over the removal of holiday names from the school calendar, argued on “Fox & Friends” that the Board of Education and superintendent have “failed” the students, parents, teachers and community.

" on Monday that the Board of Education and superintendent have"failed" the students, parents, teachers and community.

He noted that on Memorial Day"we historically have our veterans come into classrooms to share their stories with our children, so how do you celebrate that if you can't even call it that?" "If we don’t have anything on the calendar, we don’t have to have anyone [with] hurt feelings or anything like that," Dorene Roche, one of the board members, told Fox 5.

"We are very open and we want dialogue and input," he added."We understand that you vote for the people, but they’re not representing the people that voted for them." Randolph Township Schools Director of Communications and Digital Media, Matthew Pfouts, told Fox News that Superintendent Fano was not involved in the board's vote.

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