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a “school religious holiday” is no religious celebration, it is just a day off on a day when no one would come to school anyway

Nothing more than a day or a week off for vacation because probably 90% or more of families and faculty (Christian or not) wouldn't show up even if school was in session

Somehow I don't think diwali or loy krathong have the same draw in America and the same potential absenteeism

He doesn't suggest schools cancel days off for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, if we can't take a day off for the death of every ethnically venerated figure, then none of them.

If not for holidays schools would have to find some other reason to stand down once in a while and let families spend time together

He doesn't suggest schools cancel days off for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr

Of course not.

For one thing, MLK Jr. is probably BU's most famous plagiarist graduate.

There are other considerations, too, not exactly unique to BU.

[Article] Prothero suggests that those who agree with him should clamor to have every religious holiday under the sun celebrated in our public schools, in which schools would thereby be overwhelmed and forced to honor none of them as a matter of “fairness.”

The writer's too kind to Prothero, an antireligious religion professor, a curious creature rather like the "self-hating Jew" who used to help the Nazis hunt for other Jews.

More likely, Prothero is a typical lowlife Red scumbag using tenure to enable his hobby of destroying the country. He's advocating certifiable Cloward-Piven/Alinskyite tactics to bring society to its knees before his false godlet of PC secularism.

He doesn't suggest schools cancel days off for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr,.....

Bingo! -- Nice catch, and exactly to the point. Proof of my thesis, that Prothero is pushing a Leftist religion-bashing meme, not "fairness".