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[quote=Anonymous]While it's true that there are schools that have higher and lower absentee rates for specific holidays, MCPS has traditionally looked at the absentee rate for the entire school system.  The reason is because that is what influences operations.  Specifically, the system as a whole has trouble functioning if 15% of students/teachers are absent on a given day.

For example, if a school has a large population of teachers who practice the Islamic faith, the system can still easily provide substitute teachers at that school because many schools have fewer teachers who practice that particular faith.  And while some individual schools might have to make adjustments to lesson plans if a lot of students are absent on a particular religious holiday, the whole system's operations are not really impacted if the majority of schools can still function as planned with the majority of students in attendance.

I hope I'm making sense.  Long story short, we cannot incorporate religious holidays into the calendar just because there a few schools that meet the 15% threshold - it is a system-wide benchmark.[/quote]

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