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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi All! Usually it was labeled as "Professional day". How come no holiday this year? Anyone know?[/quote]

Why would it need to be a holiday off of school? [/quote]

Why is Christmas? [/quote]

Because it falls during a scheduled break. Just liket this.

Are you stupid? Or are you being deliberately obtuse?[/quote]

The scheduled break has purposefully always been around major Christian holidays. Has it been a coincidence that winter break mysteriously always includes Christmas and Spring Break always mysteriously is around Easter????? Come on. Use common sense. This is an old tradition based on decades of predominantly Christian-based populations that's very antiquated.

The nasty tones here are completely unnecessary. [/quote]

The false premise of your question was more unnecessary. Maybe when you stop behaving in bad faith, you might get good faith answers.

But since you just acknowledged that you were, in fact, being deliberately obtuse, allow me to break this down for you:

The American tradition is to have separation of church and state. This is well covered in the Federalist papers. As such, religious holidays have never been called such on the school calendar. For a very long time, Christianity was the majority religion in this country -- it still is, of course, but observers of other faiths have grown appreciatively, and so we now accommodate their holidays in our public schools in the interest of diversity, equity and inclusion (you know, those things that make America great!). Only, due to the tradition that we separate church and state, we don't actually call it those things.

Do you understand this now a little better? Or are you going to continue to act like an utter dipshit?[/quote]

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