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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]… so as a practical matter it makes sense to give a holiday when large numbers of people are likely to be off.  I mean, for Pete's sake, they now cancel school for Jewish, Muslim and Hindu holidays, and those are miniscule populations, except in certain clusters where there are higher concentrations of those populations. [/quote]

Isn't Easter on a Sunday?  It lasts one day.  It doesn't matter what weekend you pick, you don't have school on Sunday.  How does Sunday impact the school week?[/quote]

I don’t really care when Spring Break happens, but (for context only)  observant Christians have multiple religious events before and after Easter Sunday.  Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Monday are all examples of “days of obligation”.  Many evangelicals or Catholics missed school on those days, which was the (historical) reason to have those as school holidays.

As a matter of principle, I’d like school holidays which align with religious holidays to be ONLY on days when LARGE numbers of students would miss school even if it were not a school holiday.  Christmas week (until January 2nd) would be an example of this.  Choosing an Exact minimum percentage of missing students to qualify as a school holiday would have endless debates, however.

My school (elsewhere) tried to use this principle, with the result (in that area) that Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Christmas Week (12/24-1/2), Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah were the only school holidays which aligned with religious holidays[/quote]

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