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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. [b]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.[/b] 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]

Even fewer places give off all of the religious and cultural holidays that we have off.  This is a public school system, and one that is in close proximity to the heart of the federal government.  We should talk about removing religious and cultural observances before doing away with the federal holidays.  Plenty of us would like to keep the federal holidays and return to the more sensible calendars that we had five or six years ago.[/quote]

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