Business is GOOD to Good Friday

For the second year in a row, the Mounds View School District has scheduled classes for tomorrow, Good Friday. This amazing lack of sensitivity to the religious orientation of at least 95% of the students enrolled in our suburban district was compounded by, once again, the Mounds View District's scheduling of a vacation Friday earlier in the month. Last year, a middle school principal went on record that an "overwhelming" number of students were absent on Good Friday throughout the District, many specifically indicating religious observation as the reason for the absence. The administration, when contacted, plead the politically-correct line of respecting diversity, which is really sort of a laughable excuse here in suburbia. The administration further indicated that school calendars are set two years at a time, which should mean that NEXT year, we can return to enjoying Good Friday as the designated day off, since the teachers' union apparently requires a Friday off this time of year.

It is interesting to note that in the business world, at least two huge, international corporations that employ friends of Anglicat have, once again, declared Good Friday as a mandatory day off for EVERYBODY. This is just one more reason why business leaders need to be taken seriously when they consider entering public service through elective office. While common sense defers to political correctness among government-salaried bureaucrats, common sense is rewarded, and thus thrives, in the business world.