Fifth-grade students in Amherst are calling on state legislators to ditch Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day, as part of a project in a public school's language arts class.
The project began with an assignment to students "writing about the change they'd like to see in the world," a story in The Daily Hampshire Gazette paraphrases the teacher, Tim Austin, as saying. In the assignment, the students discuss the topics, narrow them down to one, "and plan a campaign around that issue," the story states.
