MARSHFIELD, Mass. – Elaine Taylor wants to bring Christmas back.

The Marshfield, Massachusetts resident submitted a petition backed by dozens of citizens to the town clerk Nov. 10 to force the local school board to reconsider their recent vote to change the district’s “Christmas Vacation” to a “holiday break,” the Marshfield Wicked Local news site reports.

“Marshfield boards are required to schedule a meeting to discuss a specific topic if a petition signed by at least 25 registered voters is submitted to the town clerk. The town charter requires that the meeting take place within two weeks of the petition’s filing,” according to the website.

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“We want more of a dialogue. We weren’t able to get feedback or thoughts from the committee on what we were trying to get across,” Taylor said. “Maybe then they would understand that the vote taken before was not in the best interest of the community.”

The school committee voted 3-2 Sept. 9 to change the name after a parent requested they do so.

Taylor and other concerned citizens approached the committee at its October meeting to urge members to reconsider the vote, and presented a petition with 443 signatures of support. Committee members listened to the criticism, but did not engage in any sort of debate over the issue.

The petition to reverse course has since swelled to over 4,000 supporters, Taylor told Marshfield Wicked Local, and her recent submission to the town clerk has forced the committee to schedule a special meeting on Monday to address their concerns.

The petitioners contend “the vacation is based around Christmas, which is a federal holiday whether or not one celebrates it. They also said the decision promotes religious intolerance and censorship,” according to the news site.

“The citizens have the right to (call a meeting) but … finding a day for a special meeting for five people with the holiday, it’s been difficult,” committee chairman Marti Morrison said. “But we’re doing it, and we will see who comes out and hear what they say and determine if we’ll take any further action based on the comments.”

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The Christmas debacle is at least the second in recent weeks.

The suburban DC Montgomery County, Maryland school district this month stripped Christmas and Jewish holy holidays from its official calendar after Muslim parents complained, according to media reports.

But that’s not good enough as they say the move does “nothing to gain parity and a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid.”

“Equality is really what we’re looking for,” Saqib Ali, co-chair of Equality for Eid, said. “Simply saying we’re not going to call this Christmas, and we’re not going to call this Yom Kippur, and still closing the schools, that’s not equality.”