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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every religion has at least 1 day off on the FCPS calendar.  Remember:  equity![/quote]

Yes, equity. How horrible it is to show respect to a diverse community & let them celebrate their holidays. /sarcasm

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Rastafarians? No insult to them (just an example), but if everyone was to get a holiday, there would be no school. What should be the size of the student population or petition necessary to get a holiday?

I don't have the answer.[/quote]

You are not actually comparing Jews to Rastafarians [/quote]

Are YOU saying Jews are more important than Rastafarians? [/quote]

I am saying you cannot seriously compare taking a day to celebrate the holiday of one of the 3 major Abrahamic religions to taking days off for every single faith no matter how niche. There is a huge difference between schools saying let’s take off for Buddhist and Rastafarian and Bah’ai and Pagan and whatever else holidays and schools saying, this is a major Jewish holiday that many people observe. [/quote]

Do you have any rough numbers for Fairfax? Relatively it may not be that many.

I think there is just some general frustration that there are lots of partial weeks (disruptive for many families) and despite the fact that school starts much earlier, it still doesn't end until mid June.

I personally think there are too many other closures and the winter break is at least 3 days too long.[/quote]

Saying “winter break doesn’t need to be this long” is fair and reasonable. Saying “schools shouldn’t close for a major Jewish holiday” isn’t. You wouldn’t expect schools to be open on Christmas Day. [/quote]

But then where is the line drawn. There are a slew of holidays important to people. The new religious holidays off were not created in response to operational issues. They were created in response to lobbying. By that logic anyone left out without their special holiday off should lobby for a day off too. And we could end up just going all of June at that rate. [/quote]

Read the  post from the teacher saying it is an operational issue. There is still a very large substitute problem. So some schools may have 10 plus teachers out in these holidays when you add in sickness, personal leave and religious leave. [/quote]

This. Parents forget schools are a business. They cannot do their job properly with many staff members out. The days when a lot of staff is out, it is felt throughout the building. Kids not getting services, classes combined, poor behavior due to lack of consistency. [/quote]

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