Recently, Gail Johnson, a former high school principal, woke up to find her phone buzzing with dozens of angry messages from parents.
The uproar centered on what Johnson, 59, considered a routine opinion, hardly the stuff of outrage. Yet within hours, her post had gone viral, igniting a heated debate among moms and dads across the country.
“It’s 2025 and I actually have parents trying to defend pulling their child out of school for vacation,” Johnson, who now works as a substitute teacher, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I get a death. I get a granny is turning 100 and lives out of state. But to get a cheaper vacation — nope. I can’t ever support that.”
“The reactions were unexpected to say the least,” Johnson tells TODAY.com from her home in South Carolina, noting that she
Principal Roasted For Saying Students Should Never Miss School for Vacation
