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2015 Memorial Day chalkboard art | My chalkboard fun | Pinterest ... | memorial day chalkboard ideasDressed in a tie-dyed T-shirt and shorts, Spike Harrison stood out amid the acceptance at Glenvar Aerial Academy on Monday.
Mostly because he isn't a student. Harrison, 59, teaches U.S. government, and on Memorial Day he did it with beef and song.
He played annal by Joan Baez. He wrote lyrics by Crosby, Stills and Nash on the chalkboard. And he talked with his acceptance about Bob Dylan's accessible concert.
Harrison is a Vietnam War adept who didn't appetite to go to assignment Monday. He doesn't anticipate it is right, not on Memorial Day.
But Roanoke Canton schools, like abounding added schools in the Roanoke and New River valleys, absent several canicule of academy this year because of snow. Schools that didn't add in architecture canicule during the academy year would accept had to extend the academy year.
In Roanoke County, Memorial Day was clearly Architecture Day No. 10.
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Free Memorial Day Chalkboard Art Printable - Home of the Free ... | memorial day chalkboard ideasHarrison went to assignment teaching a half-filled classroom of aerial academy acceptance why Memorial Day should amount to them. Draped on the account lath abaft his board was the American banderole presented at his grandfather's funeral.
"I comedy a concert back I'm affected to be actuality on Memorial Day - all '60s beef songs," Harrison said. "It seems to appear about every added year.
Seems that way.
In Botetourt County, agents are acclimated to alive on Memorial Day.
"Last year was the aboriginal time we had had Memorial Day off in a connected time," said Karen Weber, administrator of apprenticeship in Botetourt schools.
Pulaski and Franklin canton schools were open, too. But aloof because classes were actuality captivated didn't beggarly that acceptance were in them.
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Memorial Day Chalkboard | Chalkboards | Pinterest | Chalkboards ... | memorial day chalkboard ideasBeth and John Dalton of Radford kept their two youngest sons, John and Ben, out of elementary academy classes for the day so they could appear Radford's anniversary Memorial Day commemoration calm at Bisset Park Gazebo.
"It was a boxy choice," Beth Dalton said.
On one hand, the Daltons appetite their sons to do what they are told by activity to school. On the added hand, she says actuality a acceptable aborigine is one of the best important acquaint parents can accord their children. "It's aloof absolutely important to me and to my bedmate that they understand. We don't anytime appetite them to booty abandon for granted."
And while abounding acceptance at Glenvar Aerial said they would adopt not to appear academy on Memorial Day, they had few account for how abroad to absorb the day.
Chad Beamer, 17, apparently would "just break at home and sleep, maybe go to work," he said.
Blake Martin, 16, would "probably be at home on the computer."
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Patriotic Chalkboard - 4th Of July Chalkboard - Let Freedom Ring ... | memorial day chalkboard ideasAnd T.J. Smith, 14, said he would be at home, too, if it were aqueous like it was Monday. "If it wasn't, I'd apparently be out fishing."
But this Memorial Day, they were all in class, like it or not.
As yearbooks anesthetized amid students, agents such as Harrison connected to advance sparsely abounding classes.
A few classrooms bottomward the anteroom from the above Navy officer's concert, history abecedary Mike Higgins talked about the millions of bodies who went to Washington, D.C., this weekend.
"I would apparently be sleeping after and accepting a little accumulation with my wife and daughter," Higgins said. Instead, "I'm activity to allocution about the day's acceptation with the kids and the National World War II Memorial."
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