Unit 5 to Celebrate Indigenous People Day

Indigenous people day will be celebrated by students in normal. Several Months ago Kingsley Junior High students sent a memo to the Unit 5 School Board urging them to remove Columbus day and add Indigenous Peoples Day.  The board presented the students with three options, Celebrate indigenous people on the same day as Columbus Day, establish a commemorative holiday to honor indigenous people or celebrate Illinois Indigenous Peoples Day on the last Monday of September. The students chose the latter and after a long debate on the issue the board voted unanimously to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day but also to keep Columbus day.