The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education has agreed to cancel classes so teachers can attend a protest.
Educators will be taking to the streets on May 1 to march for more funding, and the day will be marked down on the calendar as an optional workday. Those who opt to attend the protest, put together by the North Carolina Association of Educators, will gather in the capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.
🚨#BREAKING: Charlotte NC just CANCELLED SCHOOL so thousands of teachers could go and PROTEST on Friday, May 1st.
Nearly 150,000 children will now be STAYING HOME on Friday so their teachers can protest for:
“Kids Over Corporations…”
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING????!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ZiUm0Xk1nY
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 24, 2026
“The CMS board called an emergency meeting Friday after over 1,875 of the district’s around 9,000 total educators had requested leave by Wednesday evening, according to public records. On May 1 last year, for comparison, there were 1,210 teacher absences. A total of 2,622 teachers had requested leave by 6 a.m. Friday,” The Charlotte Observer reported on Friday.
CMS Board Chair Stephanie Sneed spoke about the decision to take the day off in hopes of securing more funding for public education in the state.
“Trust that we don’t make this decision lightly. This is a greater issue that we have been dealing with for quite some time when it comes to funding for our schools … We need the support from our state in order to do what’s best for children,” she said.
X users reacted to the story:
Enough people start homeschooling their kids and these teachers can protest every single day for the rest of their lives.
— Jess (@Jess4u) April 24, 2026
All the parents who have to take off work and risk losing their jobs because of this BS should get a class action and sue the school system
— Kimberley 2.0 (@TheRealGAPeach3) April 24, 2026
Why aren’t they protesting on their 3 month vacation?
— Linda (@HonestAlways2) April 24, 2026
Teachers protesting on May Day like the good little communists they truly are‽
— Minister of PropaganDUH Elect (@majorkingkong) April 24, 2026
Parents have the ability to stop taking orders from teachers unions and school boards..this is coordinated and if they wanted a day to protest it should have been scheduled last year…the children should be first not the union
— Sherri Anderson (@GmaBoomBoom) April 25, 2026
School boards all around the country, and many of their teachers, are not normal people. There has to be brainwashing somewhere in the training of these people.
— Dedra Higgins (@realDedraH) April 24, 2026
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