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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Create your own calendar.  What do you remove (25/26 version)?  Italicized are federal holidays (plus the two embedded in Winter Break).  Total of 39 days.

[i]Labor Day[/i] (x2) - dictated by law, unable to be removed
Sept. 9th - special election, teacher workday
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
[i]Columbus/Indigenous[/i] - staff development
Diwali
Nov. 3 - School planning day (end of Q1)
Nov. 4 - Election and teacher workday (end of Q1)
[i]Veteran's Day[/i]
Thanksgiving (x3)
Winter Break (x10)
[i]MLK day[/i]
Jan. 29 - Staff Development (end of Q2)
Jan. 30 - Teacher Workday (end of Q2)
[i]President's Day[/i]
Lunar New Year - Teacher Workday
Eid al-Fitr
Spring Break (x5)
Apr. 6 - Teacher Workday (end of Q3)
Orthodox Good Friday - School Planning Day
[i]Memorial Day[/i]
May. 26 - Teacher Workday
May. 27 - Eid al-Adha

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We only started having Veteran's Day off two years ago.  We should also remove Eid - it's ridiculous to have a holiday that changes a few weeks before the day. We can't plan for it. It should be an excused absence.[/quote]

They can’t remove Eid. [b]The last year we had school on Eid, it was very dicey in special education with so many IAs and bus drivers out.[/b] That’s a liability that the county just can’t tolerate. I was so grateful we made it through that day safely.[/quote]

There are clearly operational issues with some of the holidays.  I've asked this before and didn't receive a response - what do you think that the response would be if only the Eids were off and not Yom Kippur/Rosh Hashahana?  [/quote]

There are absolutely operational issues with some of the religious holidays. But people on here will swear up and down that the reason we have the Jewish holidays and the Muslim holidays and Diwali and Lunar New Year is because there was such a demand for them and isn’t it great that we’re multi-cultural. When really, it’s because they couldn’t get enough IA’s on Eid, but giving just the Eid holidays as days off school but nothing else, would be horrible optics. [/quote]

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