"At the urging of the social studies department at which time I was chair, we petitioned the state of Illinois to have school on Veterans Day, because it was a holiday and you had to petition to have school," recalled Jirkovsky at the event. "We were one of the first schools to do that in the whole Chicagoland area and other schools now have picked up the idea and copied what we're doing. Having a day off, kids sleep until noon and have no concept of what it was and what it's for."
Jirkovsky, a veteran himself, said that he and his fellow teachers were inspired by a newspaper column by the late Mike Royko.
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