Why don't we get any days off for Easter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to become Jewish for the holidays.

Wow, this is a very ignorant statement. As a practicing Jew, I have to take all Jewish holidays off with vacation time unless it happens to fall on a weekend or coincides with another holiday. As the Orthodox Jew who posted before pointed out, that's a lot of vacation days to take...in contrast with Christians who do not need to take vacation days to have Christmas or Easter off.

[Anonymous]

Maybe this should be an entire spin off, but while we're discussin what federal/American holidays should be, I vote for changing thanksgiving to Friday instead of Thursday.

Most places don't close for "black Friday" and since it's the largest traveling holiday of the year, it really should be on Friday. And not to be a goody-goody, but the creep into Wednesday is out of control. So many parents pull their kid out of school early or entirely on Wednesday and many businesses unofficially close early or are half staffed on Wednesday. Who puts a holiday on a Thursday?!!

[Anonymous]

Christians complaining about other religions in the US are the height of delusion.

Note: There are many reasonable, rational, intelligent and learned Christians - but quite a number of you in this thread couldn't be further from it.

[Anonymous]

The entire work week is planned around Christians. I have to work late on Fridays and barly make it to synagogue. And our building only runs HVAC on Saturday mornings, so if I need to work on Sunday, I freeze or sweat half the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do MoCo public schools close on every major Jewish holiday? Please explain how that is fair to Christians?

Mo Co schools close on 3 major Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, and at least this year, Spring Break coincides with Pesach. They close for 2 major Christian holidays, but give extended breaks at those times, Christmas and Easter. As someone who sometimes travels for the holidays I celebrate (Christmas and Easter), I prefer the latter. I have trouble understanding how that's unfair to me as a Christian.

My guess is that both decisions are largely financial. If the school stayed open on either set of holidays they'd have a significant numbers of teachers and students out. This would mean significant sub costs, combined with financial penalties for having low attendance. In addition, I can't imagine that MCPS wants to deal with the fallout of having people complain about losing something they've always had.

[Anonymous]

Well, at least there's nothing moronic or repetitive about random posters claiming to know more about any given religion than the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Easter Monday" is not a holiday or even a concept in most of this country. Never heard of it before moving to DC. Easter is always on Sunday and Good Friday services are in the evening, so there's no reason for days off.

Good Friday is a holiday for City and County employees where I live. Union contracts.

[takoma]

Did anyone mention that you get the day he rose off EVERY WEEK?

[Anonymous]

Some people are hard-core about Easter. My parents are crazy busy that week preparing food and going to church and it would be nice a couple days to spend the holiday with our family. There's nothing wrong with whining about not getting a holiday for it, not everyone gets that many vacation days over the year. My mom missed a lot of stuff when I was growing up because she had shift work and few vacation days.

Jesus effin' Christ. Much of what is wrong with America is wrapped up in the sentiment, "There's nothing wrong with whining . . ." Yes there is. Whining is, de facto, wrong, annoying, irritating, and whole lot of other synonyms. When you whine, "There should be a national holiday so my life could be a little easier," you sound like a toddler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do MoCo public schools close on every major Jewish holiday? Please explain how that is fair to Christians?

Mo Co schools close on 3 major Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, and at least this year, Spring Break coincides with Pesach. They close for 2 major Christian holidays, but give extended breaks at those times, Christmas and Easter. As someone who sometimes travels for the holidays I celebrate (Christmas and Easter), I prefer the latter. I have trouble understanding how that's unfair to me as a Christian.

My guess is that both decisions are largely financial. If the school stayed open on either set of holidays they'd have a significant numbers of teachers and students out. This would mean significant sub costs, combined with financial penalties for having low attendance. In addition, I can't imagine that MCPS wants to deal with the fallout of having people complain about losing something they've always had.

+1 to this. Exactly. I just cannot comprehend the whining about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Some people are hard-core about Easter. My parents are crazy busy that week preparing food and going to church and it would be nice a couple days to spend the holiday with our family. There's nothing wrong with whining about not getting a holiday for it, not everyone gets that many vacation days over the year. My mom missed a lot of stuff when I was growing up because she had shift work and few vacation days.

Jesus effin' Christ. Much of what is wrong with America is wrapped up in the sentiment, "There's nothing wrong with whining . . ." Yes there is. Whining is, de facto, wrong, annoying, irritating, and whole lot of other synonyms. When you whine, "There should be a national holiday so my life could be a little easier," you sound like a toddler.

Yep. And there are lots of threads on here about how annoying it is when a toddler whines. It's exponentially more annoying when a grown adult who should know better does it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do MoCo public schools close on every major Jewish holiday? Please explain how that is fair to Christians?

Schools also close for snow days. How is this fair to rodeo riders?

ITA. That is EXACTLY what I was thinking.