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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 weeks at winter doesn't bother me. Its easy to get grandparents involved for child care and [b]nice to have extra time off to be festive[/b]. I dont want to be at work so using school closures as a reason to take PTO is fine with me.

I wish summer break was longer. And I wish the religious holidays were gone.[/quote]

So you want 2 weeks for your own holiday to "be festive," but don't want other religions to have ONE day for their holidays? Please sit with your hypocrisy for a minute.[/quote]

At least half of those religious holidays were for religions that represent 2% or fewer FCPS students and staff.

So yes, the other 98.3% of FCPS students and teachers should be in school those days.

Pick a cut off that makes sense, such as 10% of the county.  Any religion representing 10% or more of fcps can stay.  Any religion representing less than 10% of FCPS gets an excused personal free day while everyone else attends school.
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I’m not interested in FCPS collecting data on our religion. Where do you suppose they find out the religion of their students to determine if they meet your 10% cutoff?[/quote]
Probably through absentee rates and staffing shortages. That’s why we’ll continue to have 2 week winter breaks. Too many families will pull their kids from school when there are only 2-3 days of school leading into a long break. [/quote]

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