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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi All! Usually it was labeled as "Professional day". How come no holiday this year? Anyone know?[/quote]

Why would it need to be a holiday off of school? [/quote]

Why is Christmas? [/quote]

Because of the sheer number of people who have the legal right to take that day off for religious observation, which make is pointless to have the school building open.[/quote]
+1 it's about the practicality.

The only reason MCPS closes on a lot of the main Jewish holidays is because of the number of people who would be out, teachers and admin included. Easier just to close the school. Same for Christmas.

And I'm not Jewish. I'm from CA, and when we first moved here and found out about the Jewish holiday closures, I could not understand why, until someone told me how many Jewish people live in MoCo.

In CA where I'm from, we get a ski week off in February because of the number of families who pull their kids out of school to go skiing. 
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