first of all, groundhog day was a totally cool and fun movie.

i don't know about that school, but maybe groundhog day is just a topic.  maybe they're talking about weather or something about the history of that.  i don't care enough about that particularly silly day to spend 2 seconds looking it up but i bet there's some history to it.  could be they will talk about presidents day on another day in that same class. 

now that i think about it, you might just be seeing a change in curriculum where they are adjusting in this holiday that might have been overlooked.  no need to look at the presidents at this moment because that curriculum is already settled.

 

lol now that i think about that, maybe the emphasis on this day that you are seeing is that someone mentioned they should adjust the curriculum a particular way and folks began arguing against it.  it might be a little matter no one thought anyone would care about until someone did and then it became a big matter.

 

anyway, i highly doubt that your kids will get through school without them teaching about the founders.  righty or lefty in your politics, it all goes back to the founders, and each side declares that the founders favor their take on things. 

(seems likely to me they were as divided and misguided as we are now, but that's just a guess.  they may have indeed been devine.)

go that way really fast.
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