CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Students across the nation missed out on important learning time Feb. 16, when teachers and students in many places played hooky for “A Day Without Immigrants” social justice protest.

Two weeks later, officials in some schools are already canceling classes for another cause: a so-called “Day Without a Woman” demonstration scheduled for March 8.

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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools canceled classes for next Wednesday because many teachers are expected to stay home in a show of solidarity, for women.

The Herald-Sun reports:

March 8 is International Women’s Day and also deemed “A Day Without a Woman” where women are asked to take the day off from paid and unpaid labor, avoid shopping for one day with exception for small, women- and minority-owned businesses and wear red in solidarity of the movement, which was spurred from the Women’s March held in January.

CHCCS Interim Superintendent Jim Causby sent an emailed statement to parents on Thursday.

“While Chapel Hill-Carroboro City Schools values and supports its female employees, the decision to close schools is not a political statement,” Causby wrote. “It is entirely about the safety of students and the district’s inability to operate with a high number of staff absences.”

Durham Public Schools may close, as well, superintendent Bert L’Homme told the Herald-Sun.

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The idea of “A Day Without a Woman” is to campaign for “gender justice” by boycotting stores perceived to be “unethical,” according to its website.

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“In the same spirit of love and liberation that inspired the Women’s March, we join together in making March 8th A Day Without a Woman, recognizing the enormous value that women of all backgrounds add to our socio-economic system – while receiving lower wages and experiencing greater inequalities, vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment, and job insecurity,” according to the website.

“We recognize that trans and gender nonconforming people face heightened levels of discrimination, social oppression and political targeting. We believe in gender justice.”

The far left agenda of the event, much like the Women’s March, appeals to teachers unions and social justice activist teachers, but alienates Trump supporters, pro-life women, and conservatives.

Organizers of the event penned an editorial for The Guardian titled “Women of America: we’re going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power.”

The women wrote:

Lean-in feminism and other variants of corporate feminism have failed the overwhelming majority of us, who do not have access to individual self-promotion and advancement and whose conditions of life can be improved only through policies that defend social reproduction, secure reproductive justice and guarantee labor rights. As we see it, the new wave of women’s mobilization must address all these concerns in a frontal way. It must be a feminism for the 99%. …

As a first step, we propose to help build an international strike against male violence and in defense of reproductive rights on 8 March. In this, we join with feminist groups from around 30 countries who have called for such a strike.

The idea is to mobilize women, including trans women, and all who support them in an international day of struggle – a day of striking, marching, blocking roads, bridges, and squares, abstaining from domestic, care and sex work, boycotting, calling out misogynistic politicians and companies, striking in educational institutions. These actions are aimed at making visible the needs and aspirations of those whom lean-in feminism ignored: women in the formal labor market, women working in the sphere of social reproduction and care, and unemployed and precarious working women.

The women organizers described the international feminist movement as “at once anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist and anti-neoliberal.”

One of the organizers and authors of the Guardian editorial, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, is a 69-year-old Palestinian-American activist who was convicted 47 years ago of a deadly terrorist bombing at a Jerusalem supermarket on behalf of the terrorist organization Popular Front, Snopes.com reports.

Odeh contends she was tortured by Israeli soldiers until she made a false confession, but was convicted in a military court of two bombings, including a 1969 blast that killed two Hebrew University students, according to the news site.

She spent several years in an Israeli prison before she was released in 1979.

Odeh was also convicted of immigration fraud and sentenced to 18 months in prison for neglecting to mention her past conviction when she came to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, though she successfully appealed that conviction and has a new trial set for May 2017, Snopes reports.

Regardless, Odeh will lead women across the country for a massive boycott and collective social justice tantrum next week, and so many teachers are following her lead that schools are forced to shut down.

Chapel Hill-Carroboro City Schools superintendent Causby told parents it became obvious this week that many of the district’s teachers have more important things to do Wednesday, and won’t be coming in.

“The results came back, and the number was significant,” he wrote in an email. “In fact, it is my determination that we will not have enough staff to safely run our school district.”

Wednesday is now an option teacher work day, students will not make up the day, and athletic events are expected to proceed as scheduled, WRAL reports.