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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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.[/b]  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]

There's that narrow-minded view that there are only a handful of "important" religions.[/quote]

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