{"id":200919,"date":"2025-06-25T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-importance-of-celebrating-educational-milestones-a-comparison-of-social-justice-through-school-gala-day-and-other-parades\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:33:59","slug":"liberia-the-importance-of-celebrating-educational-milestones-a-comparison-of-social-justice-through-school-gala-day-and-other-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-importance-of-celebrating-educational-milestones-a-comparison-of-social-justice-through-school-gala-day-and-other-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The Importance of Celebrating Educational Milestones &#8211; A Comparison of Social Justice Through School Gala Day and Other Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Every year, schools across Liberia celebrate a significant milestone in their academic calendars with a gala day and other parades. These events allow students to showcase their achievements and foster community and school pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">However, in a recent resolution, Liberia&#8217;s Ministry of Education and the Liberia National Police decided to ban these celebrations from the streets, citing security concerns and incidents of hooliganism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">This decision has raised many questions about educational freedom,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250526.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, schools across Liberia celebrate a significant milestone in their academic calendars with a gala day and other parades. These events allow students to showcase their achievements and foster community and school pride. However, in a recent resolution, Liberia&#8217;s Ministry of Education and the Liberia National Police decided to ban these celebrations from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,13496,38462,7165,7326,17464,7962,6852,4712,1107,6548,257,27746,4362,3577,254],"class_list":["post-200919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-celebrating","tag-comparison","tag-day","tag-educational","tag-gala","tag-importance","tag-justice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-milestones","tag-news","tag-parades","tag-school","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}