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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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[b]You just blew right past your hypocrisy.[/b] Shocking.

We live in a multicultural society and we should value that multiculturalism. Nobody is asking for every holiday off. That's what religious private schools are for. But public education is available to everyone and [b]giving off a handful of holidays[/b] (that sometimes fall on weekends or in the summer and don't affect the school calendar at all) [b]in order to support those families [/b]and allow them to participate as themselves in our society is worth it.

Limiting early release days and combining teacher work days with some of these holidays or with minor Federal holidays would be a better way to address the calendar problems.[/quote]

Speaking of hypocrisy...why just a handful of holidays and who would get to decide which holidays were included?  What about the families who celebrate the holidays that are not included?

I'm not sure why we would support some families and not others.  By recognizing some holidays and not others, there will always be people left out.  FPCS is a public school system.  It's a fool's errand (and inappropriate) to hold the calendar hostage to some religious holidays when it's not possible to recognize all of them and there will always be people left out.  Federal holidays only and excused absences.[/quote]
The holidays that they chose were based on an interfaith committee of clergy recommending some holidays. Again, for people who want all of their holidays fully observed, religious private schools exist. But some of the most major holidays of other religions (with input from faith communities) is not hypocrisy. It's what equity looks like.

And your hypocrisy was insisting you need a full two weeks off to be "festive" while denying anyone else just one day.[/quote]

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