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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we want to remove religious holidays, it needs to be all. It isn’t right to leave in Christian holidays but then view Muslim holidays as expendable. A new calendar system where only federal holidays are honored and no religious holidays are included at all would work, but it would require people who are very used to having Christian holidays honored to accept the change.[b] No two week winter break. Christmas Eve in school, only Christmas Day off for the federal holidays and back on 12/26. Spring break untied from Easter. [/quote]

Even if you’re not Christian, winter break is very ingrained in our culture. It’sa very practical way for families to gather, because all the children and most of the adults have off at the same time. The alternative would be to constantly have work disrupted by families taking vacations at random times. I taught in a private school where this was common, and it was chaos. So much work, and the kids who left never caught up. I be had one student go from first in the class to sixth, and he could tell. He was not happy. :([/quote]

Winter break is something that happens across the Country at the same time. FCPS makes it a 2 week break, which is different then a fair amount of the Country. There are plenty of historic reasons why it is tied to Christmas. At this point in time, it is a traditional break time in the US even as the Christmas holiday has become more secular.

I would guess that there are parts of the world where the major breaks are tied to other religious holidays for the same reason that Winter Break is tied to Christmas in the US.

And yes, we need to uncouple Spring Break from holy week leading into Easter. Most of the country does not tie Spring break to holy week, I have no clue why this area is so attached to it. Choose a week in March, call it Spring Break week and be done with it. [/quote]

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