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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I noticed there are nothing on their calendar recognizing, let alone altering the schedule for it.

If you are a Jewish family, why on earth would you send your kid there?  And by refusing to even acknowledge Rosh Hashanah, what does it say about Landon's ability to recognize/respect diversity?[/quote]

You just "noticed" something on the web calendar of a school that you're not affiliated with? You seem obsessed with Landon, and with doing anything you can to badmouth the school. Your behavior says so much more about you than it does about Landon.

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No.  There is a thread entitled, "What is it like to be Jewish at VA/DC Independent HS?", so I looked up Landon's calendar.  Sorry you are embarrassed (as you should be) that Landon doesn't have any recognition of the Jewish community.[/quote]

As a former Landon parent who is jewish and whose DS graduated from Landon, you are completely off base. The calendar you are looking at is for the general public. The internal calendar notes when Rosh Hashanah is as well as Yom Kippur. We never felt any lack of recognition as neither did the Hindu or Muslim students when their major holidays's occured and werre recognized as well. Teaachers never pealized any students for missing class or scheduled assignments for a religious holidays. The boys would be proactive with the teacher and work around the conflict. HS sports are not scheduled on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur as it happens on next week where Yom Kippur is on Friday night so the regularly scheduled Football and soccer games are on Thursday. Weekly assemblies are places where discussion thappen describing the holiday's, the origins and the customs of these major holdays. The lunchroom director goes out of their way to make sure that menu during passover has items for those kids keeping passover to eat andit is not just soup and matzah. Considering there is about 10% of jewish students in each class, though some classes may be more, not sure what more they could do.

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