>>>In Cumberland county, all schools are closed on MLK Bday. Here in Guilford county, they are not. My daughter had that day off every year until this year.
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>>Similarly with the Columbus day, IIRC, a high school in Charlottesville started (or stopped, don't remember) closing on that day when the principal changed.
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>Stopped would be my guess. Columbus has been pretty well discredited as the historic figure we (my generation and before) grew up being taught he was. He sure didn't discover America.

He's honored as the last guy who discovered it :).