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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]They had data on absentee rates for the various holidays before they gave all these days off s[/b]o they know which ones are have higher attendance absences for staff and students. This isn’t hard. Unless the absences are impacting the school, they should have school. They can set the days so that there are no tests and no major projects due for kids whose families celebrate.

I had no issues moving the religious holidays to the bottom of my list, Christmas is going to be in the winter break and is a federal holiday, that is a huge red herring. [/quote]

Yes, they did have data on absentee rates. It didn't support any of the new religious or cultural holidays. Random days had higher absentee rates.  The School Board went ahead and did it anyway in a pointless race to show how woke they were. [/quote]

Does anyone have a link to this data? I'm a teacher and FCPS parent. I have not seen it, only heard it referenced. [/quote]

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