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[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]

I'm a teacher too, and I also banked my leave for maternity leaves.  We get 12 sick days and 5 personal days a year.  That's over 3 weeks of leave!  If it is more important for you to save it to get more time off years down the road vs. to use 1 day to celebrate your holiday of choice, that's fine, but then the religious holiday wasn't really that important.

The only change I want to see is it not being able to be denied.  PUBLIC school should not be giving extra leave for RELIGIOUS reasons.[/quote]

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