We used to celebrate the birthdays of two of our presidents in February, Lincoln on Feb. 12 and Washington on Feb. 22. Now these two holidays have been conflated as the single holiday "Presidents' Day" and the ignorant populace has been coached to believe that it is a day to celebrate not Washington and Lincoln, but ALL presidents. I think I read somewhere that BO thought it was celebrating HIMSELF.
The argument about consolidation of the Washington and Lincoln federal holidays was to introduce the January MLK Birthday holiday, "and we don't need another federal holiday." But now Juneteenth is a new federal holiday, so much for that argument.
I miss having the original separate holidays for Washington and Lincoln. It's another way of erasing our history.
The problem here in NJ is that we have imported so many non-Westerners that we have to accommodate Muslim and Hindu holidays as well; large school districts like Jersey City have to make all kinds of arrangements for this.
In the end, they’ll have to imitate some companies which just set up floating days - celebrate what you want, but get your work done...