Brooklyn-Queens Day is a nonsense holiday that nobody understands or cares about. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photogr)Guess which one of the two is a day off school for New York’s educators and kids? Yep, Brooklyn-Queens Day — which started out as Anniversary Day, in honor of the founding of Protestant religious Sunday schools in Britain (who knew? ), then became Brooklyn Day, then Brooklyn-Queens Day and is now back to Anniversary Day. And smartly, Rajkumar wants to do it not by stretching out the school year even more, but by yanking Brooklyn-Queens day.

Source: The Hindu May 21, 2023 12:25 UTC