The Hillsborough County School Board made the right call last week by coming down on the side of a non-sectarian calendar and keeping Good Friday, a consummate Christian holiday, a school day. But will the right call ever get the right results?
The odds, ultimately, are long.
The cost of Good Friday substitute-teachers (nearly $70,000 this year) and a throw-away, busy-work day for students have made recent Good Friday school days an educational travesty. No wonder 70 per cent of high school students were no shows this year. The only surprise would be if any didn’t hit the beaches.
The right results can only happen when all key adults — parents, teachers, bus drivers and certain politicians — get the religion of secularism in its proper context.