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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

And Easter Holidays are a mess. Apparently Emancipation Day is more important that the death and resurrection of a certain person beloved by 2 billion people.[/quote]

What are you talking about? Last time I checked, we were always off for Easter Sunday. [/quote]

Within Catholicism, Good Friday is the holiest day of the year.   It is not always a DCPS day off.[/quote]

Good Friday and also Monday of Resurrection.

[b]Over 2 billion people in 100+ countries celebrating that[/b], but DCPS has more important things to think about.[/quote]

Growing up protestant, we didn't care much about good Friday or Easter Monday.  We certainly never went to church on those days.  I think those are overwhelmingly Catholic observances.  Given that only 20% of the DC population is Catholic and only 39% of Catholics attend mass (per Gallup in 2018), only about 7.8% of the DC population actually celebrates those holidays, and many of those kids go to Catholic schools.   The actual percentage of DCPS students impacted is probably about the same as the number of Jewish kids impacted by no school holidays for Yom Kippur, Pesach, Rosh Hashanna, and Purim.
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