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Reply to "Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.[/quote] We don't observe the Christian holidays. Easter is on a sunday. So it is never observed by FCPS. Christmas is a federal holdiay, on a week that every industry in our area including most of the federal government shuts down. Christmas would be off no matter what, for secular reasons.[/quote] It’s no coincidence that spring break always falls the week before Easter, or that winter break aligns with Christmas. The fact that many Christian holidays already fall on weekends, and are still widely observed, shows how deeply our western calendars are structured around Christian traditions. And I understand why; the country was founded on those roots. But centuries later, we’ve become a diverse population, and it’s time our schedules reflected that.[/quote]
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