Seventy percent of 201 people who called objected to a bill requiring Lexington schools to close Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Presidents Day, and Confederate Memorial Day. The bill already has the House of Representatives approval and awaits a vote by the state Senate.
Results are unscientific.
The State offered callers the option of voicing comments on an answering machine linked to the survey. Schools should get off Memorial Day because we get off Martin Luther King Day. Memorial Day is for everyone that fought in every war and should be observed as such with respect to all, Aimee Ping said. Several others who didn t leave their names complained about the lack of widespread acceptance of Confederate Memorial Day, May 10. Since school boards refuse to act, even though many, many citizens appeared before them asking them to observe Confederate Memorial Day, I think legislators have no choice but to require them to have a Confederate Memorial Day.