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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we want to remove religious holidays, it needs to be all. It isn’t right to leave in Christian holidays but then view Muslim holidays as expendable. A new calendar system where only federal holidays are honored and no religious holidays are included at all would work, but it would require people who are very used to having Christian holidays honored to accept the change. No two week winter break. Christmas Eve in school, only Christmas Day off for the federal holidays and back on 12/26. Spring break untied from Easter. [/quote]

There are no Christian holidays on the FCPS calendar (except for the ridiculous Orthodox ones they added).  [/quote]

Christmas is at the center of the Winter Break and Spring Break is tied to Easter. FCPS tried to uncouple Spring Break from Easter but the Teachers who live in other counties threw a hissy fit because their counties kept Spring Break tied to Easter. Instead of the entire region realizing there was a problem with tying Spring Break to easter, FCPS caved. It was around that time that we got all of the other religious holidays added to the calendar and the current awful mess we have.[/quote]

[b]Winter Break has nothing to do with Christmas, which is only one day and a Federal holiday anyway.

Yes, FCPS tried to show woke they were by decoupling Spring Break from Easter and failed horribly. But Easter is always on a Sunday and is not a school holiday.

The point is, people can scream and cry about Christian holidays, but they have no impact to the calendar.[/b]  [/quote] That sounds like impact to the calendar. With that said most of the world is off around Christmas so nothing can be done there but spring break should be secular based (specific timing in the school year) not always the week before Easter. All you need is to get Loudoun on board and the rest (Arlington, Prince William, ACPS, FCCPS) will automatically adjust. How this week before Easter practice started is puzzling since Easter moves around and it doesn't even help the Easter celebraters since that is the last day for teachers and sometimes students.[/quote]

My guess is that the week before Easter is holy week and that there was a large enough contingent of Teachers and students whose families went to services on Thursday and Friday that the counties just gave off that week and it has stuck. The really devout Catholics I know try to attend services every day during Holy Week. A good number attend on Thursday and Friday. Those are long services and many prefer not to be trying to go to mass at night. At least, the Catholics I know. I also grew up in a town that proudly boasts its Irish Catholic heritage so there might have been a bit more Church attendance then the norm. [/quote]

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