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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic dad here too: Lent Fridays and meat for the kids make me totally sympathize as well.

I feel like it’d be easy to have a panel to check in with on this. And a lot of it is public information. Taking a little care would be enough. Maybe even like a checklist would be enough. Check religious calendars for days off, for student dietary restrictions, when to place testing . . . Not sure what else but it feels like we should be beyond amateur hour here. [/quote]

If you acknowledged or worked around every holiday, there would be zero days for learning. Are you suggesting just the top 3 religions?[/quote]

That's a gross exaggeration.  First, no one is saying you have to stop learning.  People are saying you should try not to have special events on days people can't participate.  So, if I class earns a pizza party, it shouldn't be on Passover when most Jewish kids can't participate.  Second, there are not that many holidays, particularly when you are only talking about holidays that are important enough for someone to need to forgo other activities.  It also depends on the school event.  I don't think someone needs to avoid having a routine event, like a PTA meeting, because someone has a holiday.  But you shouldn't have the yearly talent show or some special event when you know a decent number of people won't be able to participate. Which brings me to your last question of which religions.  I would say any religion that has a decent number of people who practice and there should be a higher threshold for district wide programs than for an event at a school or in a particular class.

All of these issues will require using judgment and there will undoubtedly be some tough calls in terms of how important a holiday is, how important/unique the school event is, how many people would be affected by an event on a particular holiday, etc.  But the solution isn't to say f-it, we are going to take anything into consideration.[/quote]

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