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[quote=Anonymous][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]

They said they used absentee data when they first put the holidays in place but there was no clear pattern of absences for most of the holidays they chose. And people said low absence rates didn’t mean people didn’t celebrate the holiday. They just felt forced to work and attend school on their holiday.[/quote]

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