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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, in MCPS, the following days are non-instructional days if they fall on a weekday...

Rosh Hashanah 
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Chinese New Year
Passover
Eid

Christmas & Easter always fall within Winter & Spring Break

I have high schoolers, and this was not the case when my kids began school here 10+ years ago.

I fall within one of the above non-instructional day groups and would rather have a longer winter break![/quote]

To be sure, winter and spring break are planned AROUND Christmas and Easter. It's a legacy from the days when they paid lip service to the notion of separation of church and state and pretended like schools didn't formally take off for Christian holidays. They always did, of course, since Christianity is the dominant religion in this country, but the fiction was that the breaks' proximity to those holidays we coincidental. [/quote]

Yes, because the state requires Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and "Eastern Monday" to be off. [/quote]

Oops "Easter Monday"[/quote]

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