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Now onto the slippery slope.  So you are saying you don't expect your employer to close or the federal government to close but you expect an entire school district to close down, while all their parents are still at work that day?  I am honestly asking you why?  If you are requesting a day off at work instead of asking the whole office to close and missing said work to celebrate a holiday, why can't your kids just get an excused absence and miss the day of school to celebrate, same as you?  Why force 95+% of the other kids to have a day off?  I am honestly curious.  [/quote]

Slippery slope: a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences[/quote]

Yet you can't answer the question.  Nice retort.   :roll: [/quote]

Why are schools closed for Good Friday or Easter Monday? You don't expect your employer to close or the federal government to close, do you? So why does an entire school district close down, while all their parents are still at work that day? Why? Can't your kids just get an excused absence and miss the day of school to celebrate, same as you?  Why force 95+% of the other kids to have a day off?

Why are schools closed for Rosh ha Shanah and Yom Kippur? You don't expect your employer to close or the federal government to close, do you? So why does an entire school district close down, while all their parents are still at work that day? Why? Can't your kids just get an excused absence and miss the day of school to celebrate, same as you?  Why force 95+% of the other kids to have a day off?[/quote]

Actually Good Friday and Easter Monday are state holidays - all Maryland school districts are mandated to have them off whether MCPS wanted to or not.  They wrap Spring Break around them.

The Jewish holidays started getting off in 1976 after multiple problems with filling Jewish teacher positions with substitutes that celebrated.

Also there are more than 5% of Christians and more than 5% Jewish people in MCPS so your comments do not make any sense whatsoever.

[b]You still haven't answered the PP's question.  [/b][/quote]

I'm not the other pp, but I'll tell you my experience.  My kids have never gone to school on Diwali.  There have been years where they will miss the test review that day (and not be given it to take home the day before) and then returned to school the next day on the day of the test.

There have been times when it was during school testing weeks. There have been times when homework was doubled up since they missed a day.  There have been times when a major project was due the same week.

I don't think this would eliminate these things, but I know that teachers would reevaluate the test dates or the project due days and my kid would be straddled with 2 nights of homework and a test or project the very next day.

It was easier in elementary, but missing even a day is a big deal in the upper grades and can double or triple the workload.   I've thought about just having them go to school on Diwali, but it is such an important holiday, though they shouldn't be punished for taking one day to celebrate their holiday.

What I don't think most are understanding is that it is important to have a least one important day of one's own faith recognized and given time off for to spend time with family and to go to temple and to nurture that tradition. (That's why Christian centric important days are holidays, not just random days as holidays- to nurture that tradition).

No one is "killing Christmas", no one is "not assimilating" to American culture, no one is saying make it a state or federal holiday. The accusations thrown around in this thread are incredulous.

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