Is there ANY way to put the genie back in the bottle re: all of the religious holidays off?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, no. One problem is that "floating holidays" or religious leave would cause a ton of operational issues. The other problem is that elementary parents are the only ones who are really bothered by the calendar. I'm a secondary teacher and it's not something anyone complains about. High schoolers and their parents love it because the kids can study for AP exams, visit colleges, and work on those days off. Middle schoolers are happy to have the chance to sleep in and are old enough to be left home unattended so the parents aren't rearranging their schedules.

This x billion

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Anonymous wrote:You're not in the minority. It's insane.

Anyone who approved this calendar should be fired.

Remove all religious holidays from the calendar.

So you want schools open on Christmas Day?

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Anonymous wrote:No way, I love the days off and what they represent. Most secondary parents like them, whether they care about the holidays off or not.

Good to know you don't value education. Most. parents and teacher do.

Children are learning about other things on religious holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:I think having every religious holiday under the sun is absolutely absurd but maybe I’m in the minority.

Monday and Friday off this week after spring break? Absolutely asinine.

Yes it is absolutely absurd that spring break and winter break revolve around Christian holidays.

Ina country founded by various Christian groups? Happens.

[Anonymous]

Get a whole new school board.

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We're edging closer and closer to "year round "
School - more smaller breaks throughout the year, no longer summer recess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're edging closer and closer to "year round "
School - more smaller breaks throughout the year, no longer summer recess.

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Perfect, would love that.

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Anonymous wrote:No way, I love the days off and what they represent. Most secondary parents like them, whether they care about the holidays off or not.

Good to know you don't value education. Most. parents and teacher do.

NP. We do value education. Our kids are taking a lot of AP classes and are using these upcoming 3 days off to prepare. (Monday, Fri and 4/21) We don’t need childcare anymore. We understand why you are so frustrated because it disrupted our kids terribly when they were little as well. Now they can use that time to prepare and study, more similar to what they will do in the near future in college. In college they are not sitting in classrooms for 7 hours M-F.

+1 this exactly. We absolutely love it for our high schooler. They are going to be well prepared for their AP exams!

+ me. High school is when it all counts and kids start owning their own education. Most high schoolers are taking college level classes and exams. This schedule works perfectly for them. I think it works pretty well for elementary STUDENTS as well, just not the parents. I do understand and sympathize, but wish there were a better solution (ex. SACC providing day care on those days[b]).

This is the biggest problem IMO. The county decided to start treating the religious holidays as county holidays too, so now SACC isn't open on those days. Funny how we are still paying the same high prices for less coverage.

It would be nice if secondary parents could care about this and help us advocate to the county for SACC to be open on those days. Society and workplace expectations aren't changing just because our school calendar sucks. Not all of us have the kind of job where we can take PTO on random days just because school is closed. It's just another thing adding to our stress in this world.

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Anonymous wrote:We're edging closer and closer to "year round "
School - more smaller breaks throughout the year, no longer summer recess.

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Perfect, would love that.

Yes! Year-round school would be so nice. Let's have the 9 week on, 2-3 week off with a 6 week summer schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:No way, I love the days off and what they represent. Most secondary parents like them, whether they care about the holidays off or not.

Good to know you don't value education. Most. parents and teacher do.

NP. We do value education. Our kids are taking a lot of AP classes and are using these upcoming 3 days off to prepare. (Monday, Fri and 4/21) We don’t need childcare anymore. We understand why you are so frustrated because it disrupted our kids terribly when they were little as well. Now they can use that time to prepare and study, more similar to what they will do in the near future in college. In college they are not sitting in classrooms for 7 hours M-F.

+1 this exactly. We absolutely love it for our high schooler. They are going to be well prepared for their AP exams!

+ me. High school is when it all counts and kids start owning their own education. Most high schoolers are taking college level classes and exams. This schedule works perfectly for them. I think it works pretty well for elementary STUDENTS as well, just not the parents. I do understand and sympathize, but wish there were a better solution (ex. SACC providing day care on those days[b]).

This is the biggest problem IMO. The county decided to start treating the religious holidays as county holidays too, so now SACC isn't open on those days. Funny how we are still paying the same high prices for less coverage.

It would be nice if secondary parents could care about this and help us advocate to the county for SACC to be open on those days. Society and workplace expectations aren't changing just because our school calendar sucks. Not all of us have the kind of job where we can take PTO on random days just because school is closed. It's just another thing adding to our stress in this world.

This is something I would definitely get behind (having SACC open). I have middle and high school students now, but we are a in person dual working household and always used SACC while the kids were in elementary. The coverage on the teacher workdays and days off that weren't deemed holidays was key to making our life work.

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SACC is open on the majority of these days. The ones it isn't open for are the two Eids, and maybe Diwali. And that's because they have many staff who celebrate and would request off, making it an operational issue.

There are a required number of professional development days for staff, and they are scheduled as much as possible at the same time as holidays celebrated by fewer people. For example, this Friday is Orthodox Good Friday.

If you want change, tell the school board to push the superintendent to have fewer professional development days.

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Our family in Pennsylvania doesn’t get off for MLK or Presidents’ Day.

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Anonymous wrote:No way, I love the days off and what they represent. Most secondary parents like them, whether they care about the holidays off or not.

What is a secondary parent? I googled it and it was about older children taking on the role as secondary parent to their siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:I think having every religious holiday under the sun is absolutely absurd but maybe I’m in the minority.

Monday and Friday off this week after spring break? Absolutely asinine.

Yes it is absolutely absurd that spring break and winter break revolve around Christian holidays.

Ina country founded by various Christian groups? Happens.

First of all, Santa Claus is not Christian.

Christmas was created to coincide with pagan holidays.

Also, the United States was not founded on Christianity. It was founded on freedom of religion any religion.

Also, the Easter bunny is not Christian. This was found to be true by the Supreme Court.

Also, the calendar does not revolve around religious holidays revolves around days that teachers will be at work and you cannot deny a teacher a day off to honor a religious day.

You seem to have gone on vacation during history and constitutional law classes.

[Anonymous]

The only school holidays should be federal holidays.