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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We certainly had a better education system when we only recognized Christian holidays. Even the reprobates at NYSE and CME take off Good Friday.

Lots of Muslim countries if you prefer that vibe.[/quote]

We don’t “recognize” Jewish holidays. We just have them off because there aren’t enough teachers to teach on those days.[/quote]

[b]I believe that the actual issue was that schools noticed a large attendance issue around the Muslim holidays[/b], including teachers and IAs being absent. The schools moved to figure out how to address that. Once they started the process to have the Muslim holidays as days off, due to attendance issues, other religions chimed in that you cannot give off a Muslim holiday without recognizing their holidays even though there had not been an attendance issue on the Jewish, Hundi, and Greek Orthodox holidays. It turned into an all or nothing scenario. But only one of the holidays actually had a real attendance issue tied to it. [/quote]

There was no such data ever presented.  Random days in the school year had higher absentee rates (both students and staff) than any of the newly added religious holidays.[/quote]

Actually, yes, the data WAS presented. They communicated data from several years worth of religious holidays and the number of students (cant remember about staff) that were absent. They then ranked the holidays with the highest rate of absenteeism.  That is the data that was considered when determining days off.[/quote]

Completely wrong.  The data didn't show that and it certainly wasn't used in determining what religious holidays to add. [/quote]

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