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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the love of God, the kids will never be in school in Fall at this rate. Google says this is an Oct/Nov holiday. We have enough days off then already.

I disagreed with the Ramadan decision too though. We simply cannot recognize every single holiday anyone in the county might be celebrating. So long as kids can take the day off and not be penalized for missing things I do not see why a holiday is needed. [/quote]

I hear you on the number of days, but then we should cancel Christmas, and only celebrate secular and federal holidays. I don't think the answer is f*ck you and your non-Christian holiday, which is essentially what the norm is. [/quote]

They make the decisions on the basis of the volume of kids and teachers who would be absent to observe their religious holidays.  Christmas, of course, is also a national holiday in the U.S.

I fully support having teachers lighten the homework load around religious observances, but if the schools close for every, yes, minority religious observance then the school year would go on ad infinitum.  Sometimes I think that the push for school holidays is more about groups who seek to have the governments recognize and validate "their" days rather than based on holiday conflict that impacts a large number of students and staff.[/quote]

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