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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here. [/quote]

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.
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Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes. [/quote]

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.[/quote]

In what schools are Christians (or at least cultural Christians who observe holidays) minorities? Whiteness is irrelevant here, as that is not a prerequisite for Cmas[/quote]

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/virginia/navy-elementary-208250

My kids school is plurality asian at about 46%.

Even if we assume that all of the black and hispanic kids are Christian and that 100% of the White kids are Christian that would make the entire school less than 50% Christian.[/quote]

Huh? Math. That would make 54%, which is more that 50 and not minority. Plus, why are all Asians non-Christians? Do you not know any Koreans??[/quote]

Koreans are a much smaller portion  of the Navy elementary population. The Asian population primarily Indian and Chinese.

Whites are 38.9%, Hispanic is 5.6 and Black is 3.6, though there are only 2 White kids in my child's class.  The summation is 48.1%.

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Great. Now what % if schools in FCPS fit that that profile? [/quote]

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