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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the long term problem: next school year’s calendar isn’t too bad. We start August 24 and get out June 16. That’s about a whole week shorter than this school year. The thing is they kept all the random religious holidays and the full two week winter break, but it just so happens that the religious holidays fall on more favorable days of the week. Either weekends or Monday or Friday to create a nice three day weekend.

Rosh Hashanah is a Saturday
Yom Kippur is a Monday
Diwali is a Sunday
Lunar New Year is a Saturday
Eid Al Adha is a Monday 
Only Eid al Fitr is mid week next school year, on a Wednesday

The 27-28 calendar is similarly favorable, with Yom Kippur on the same day as Indigenous Peoples Day, Diwali being tacked on to the end of the 1st quarter, and most other religious holidays on weekends. We do lose an extra 2 days in 27-28 for presidential primary voting the first Tuesday in March and they decided to tack on a teacher work day the Monday before.

But when all of these holidays fall mid week and aren’t being doubled as teacher work/school planning days is when we start to have a calendar that drags on and on with little continuity. They seem unwilling to do something like use the religious and cultural days as TW/SP days and then reducing the TW/SP days at the end of the quarters from 2 down to 1. Or even going back on some of the religious observances from days off to O days. [/quote]

Why is everyone getting worked up then?  The calendar for the next two years seems to keep everyone happy - religious holidays are observed and there are more 5 day weeks.

People need to find better things to get upset about. [/quote]

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