Today is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and his contribution to not only American society, but to mankind. 

On this day every year I always think of an incident that happened back in the 1970’s at the little rural school where I first taught.  Back then, there wasn’t a holiday to celebrate MLK’s birthday.  So if a family chose to keep their children home from school to celebrate the occasion, they had to send a note to school explaining the absence. 

Here is the text of a note that one third grader brought to school from his parents:

Please excuse _____’s absence yesterday because we were celebrating King Arthur’s birthday.

I saw it with my own eyes.  The family had the general idea, if not the specifics. 

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