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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The proposed 2025/2026 calendar has many Muslim and Jewish religious holidays, but they scrapped Easter Monday...  
They really make a point of mentioning all religious holidays by name, but not Christmas or Easter, why?  [/quote]
Easter Monday isn't really a thing.  Easter is observed on Sunday.[/quote]

Incorrect.  Easter Monday is a Christian holiday.  It's observed as a national holiday in nearly all English speaking countries, including Great Britain, Canada, Australia, as well as in nearly all of Europe.[/quote]
That's cultural, not religious.  Just like if July 4th is on a Sunday, we'll get the day off on Monday.  That doesn't make the holiday the Monday.  Easter is on Sunday.[/quote]

Easter Monday is a holiday in the Catholic Church.

https://www.calendar-12.com/catholic_holidays/2024
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/03/04/the-catholic-church-celebrates-easter-monday-under-the-title-monday-of-the-angel/[/quote]
As are Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Assention and Assumption.  That doesn't mean they're observed with school closures in the US.[/quote]

Sure, but I wasn't arguing that. The PP just said it wasn't a religious holiday. I answered it was.

But all those other holidays are observed with school closures in APS during spring break. [/quote]

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