Chapter Twelve
The one good thing about the Global Learning Preparatory Academy, aside from their generous catering budgets on teacher workdays, was the copious amounts of school breaks. GLPA took every holiday off, and that included all religious and cultural observances. The powers that be at the school were overly cautious as to not offend any of their enrolled families who happily forked over the high-priced admission fees and tuition.
This long weekend of a Thursday and Fridday off were courtesy of United Nations Day. Though not a National American holiday, it was instituted by the UN which asked its member countries to celebrate. The United States did the courtesy of putting the day on the calendar but didn’t upgrade it to the federal level.
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