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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Spring break always falls on Holy Week. That's a religious week for Christians.[/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 a Christian. When I wrote that spring break falls on Holy Week and that it's a religious week for Christians, my intent was not to say that FCPS should schedule student holidays on that week. Rather, my intent was to showcase that in fact, FCPS does align some student holidays around Christian holidays. (Someone had noted that FCPS did not schedule student holidays on Christian holy days, and implying that FCPS was favoring non-Christian holidays over Christian ones.)[/quote]

Fcps didn't schedule for religious Christian holiday until the Orthodox holidays were added to the schedule a few years ago.

They didn't even mention the Christian holidays.

The first year and for a few years after that, FCPS sent weekly ramadan emails, yet ignored passover and lent, occuring at the exact same time.

Practicing Christians do not want spring break on Holy Week.  That is some northern Virginia school district scheduling quirk, not something Christians ask for.[/quote]

My Catholic high school didn’t put spring break with Homy Week because they sponsored international trips in Spring Break and didn’t want to interfere with Mass attendance. [/quote]

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