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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No religious holidays.  Make it an excused absence for anyone who chooses to celebrate (and allow students the standard week to make up assignments/tests/etc without penalty).

Staff should be allowed to use leave that cannot be denied, but I don't think any special religious rules should be in place about extra leave or whatever.  We get 5 personal days.  FIVE. In addition to sick leave. If you can't spare one of your five personal days for your religious holiday, then IMO it's really not a priority for you to take it off.[/quote]

Teacher here. I disagree. Many teachers have been banking leave for eventual maternity leave which is atrocious. Also, personal leave can be denied. Religious Leave cannot. [/quote]

Another teacher here.  We used to only get 3 personal days a year.  Now we get 5.  We earn a lot of sick leave each year as well.  I have never had personal leave denied - I don't even ask.  If that's an issue, make a floating holiday like many companies do where teachers can have one day a year to take off for religious services.[/quote]

Ok, like I said earlier. Many female teachers bank their leave for maternity leave. We get 11 days a year if that is not used. For maternity leave, you need more unless you take LWOP. Some people cannot afford to do that. If we actually had good maternity leave in this country, taking a personal day for a holiday is no big deal. [/quote]

Yes, I know.  I have had two children while teaching with FCPS and I was able to save enough maternity leave to be paid both times.

My main issue is that people keep talking about these holidays like every other place gets them off, and FCPS is the only place that doesn't.  In other workplaces people need to save for maternity leave as well as take personal leave for religious holidays. Why does everyone expect FCPS should be different?  I feel like the county is actually pretty generous with it's days off overall.[/quote]

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