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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.[/quote]

We don't observe the Christian holidays.

Easter is on a sunday. So it is never observed by FCPS.

Christmas is a federal holdiay, on a week that every industry in our area including most of the federal government shuts down.

Christmas would be off no matter what, for secular reasons.[/quote]

Spring break is tied to Easter. FCPS has said this. So yes, spring break is absolutely tied to a Christian holiday.[/quote]

Easter is always on a Sunday. It will never be a school holiday. [/quote]

[b]Spring break always falls on Holy Week. That's a religious week for Christians.[/b][/quote]

Christian here. I would prefer it if spring break was separated from Easter. We are religious and observe Easter as well as Good Friday (which is night celebration so school would be fine on Good Friday). Because we celebrate Easter religiously in our church and with local family, we don’t travel over spring break. But my kids want and need a vacation. The calendar has all these random days off but not a week straight. We’d love to separate Easter from spring break so we could observe our religious holiday and also travel for spring break.

That being said, a lot of the religious holidays that students are getting off are dinner/after sundown/night holidays for the religions. There isn’t a need to have the entire school day off for them. [/quote]

I am Christian.  Every day should be a holy day.  You don't need a week off of school and many "Christian" areas do not have a week off for Easter.[/quote]

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