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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this thread proves there is no real appetite to balance the calendar. You can’t pretend one day off for Eid is the thing that tips us into mid June end dates while being wholly unwilling to consider parting with any of the 2 full weeks of winter break. You all want your travel time at Christmas. [/quote]

Not true. Plenty of people have pointed to not giving the federal holidays off for school. They are not given as days off in many places, there is no need to give them as days off here. Or turn federal holidays into teacher work days and decrease the number of teacher work days during the year. There are teacher work days that are not at the end of the quarter, remove those from the schedule.

And a lot of folks would be happy to have a week for Christmas but that does seem to be a solid no go for a large percentage of the population so I doubt that is going to change. But we could reclaim Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, President's Day, and MLK Day as either school days or teacher work days and pull back close to a week of summer vacation. [/quote]

There is a very good reason to give them off here:  Many parents have them off. 
We did not get them off where I lived as a child, though we did get Veterans Day off because there was a big parade in my city.[/quote]

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