Ask a Stupid Question Day

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Ask a Stupid Question Day is a holiday that is sometimes celebrated in the United States, usually by school students and teachers. Although Ask a Stupid Question Day takes place on September 28, it is usually observed on the last school day of September.

The origins of this day are hard to trace, though it is believed the holiday was started in the 1980s by school teachers to encourage their students to speak up and ask questions that the students would not have normally asked as they felt they were stupid questions. A view held by many teachers is that "the only stupid question is a question not asked", so this holiday was created basically as a teaching aid, and grew from there.

Aside from the obvious traditions in which student are encouraged to ask questions they normally would not have asked, several Greeting Card companies have created lines of humorous greeting cards to send to go along with this holiday.