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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christmas and Easter (Good Friday, Easter Monday) are state-mandated.  The absentee rate is irrelevant for those days. MCPS has no choice but to close.

I don't think there is any requirement that the district continually reverify their original determination that absenteeism for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur was significant enough to close.  The county has one of the largest Jewish populations in the country, I think 17% of the county is Jewish.  The usual absentee rate hovers around 5%.  It would not take 100% participation to reach double the usual absentee rate.[/quote]

Nobody is asking MCPS to continually reverify. At this point, they can't even verify. The closings are based on some absentee numbers that they gathered at some point several decades ago that they no longer have.

In fact, there's nothing MCPS even could verify. There is no way to know how many people would not be at school if there were school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur (or Christmas), because there isn't school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur (or Christmas). Just as there is no way to know how many people would like to observe Eid al-Adha if there were no school but are at school because there is school.[/quote]

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