The year is 2023 and you are currently living in remnants of a pandemic. Schools around the world are toggling between opening and closing due to Covid-19, an illness caused by a virus that can be spread from person to person. In the summer of 2020, President Trump requested that all school districts in America reopen their schools for students to return to on campus learning. Many school districts were afraid of the extreme risks involved in returning to the traditional form of teaching and learning. After all, Covid-19 has killed thousands in Georgia, over one hundred thousand in America, and hundreds of thousands worldwide. Currently, scientists are still working on a vaccination. On top of that, in order for your school to reopen according to CDC guidelines, expensive adjustments must be made to reduce contamination risks and increase the safety of the environment. Like many districts, the stakeholders in your county voted to delay your school 's spring semester reopening, and to start off 2022 with online teaching and learning. To make up for some of the missed days, district officials have suggested the idea of having school on a few of the holidays typically observed during the academic year.
Your school district will issue a survey to stakeholders and allow them to vote on which holidays they should use to make up for missed school days. Despite being a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day is on the list of options. This has created a lot of controversy. In our current state of civil unrest, many believe that the fight for racial equality is far from over. However, there are those that respect the work of Martin Luther King Jr., but do not believe there is a need to continue to reflect on the past by observing this holiday. A debate has surfaced. Should we continue to commemorate Martin Luther King's dream by closing our schools on January 17, 2022?