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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.

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

The 2014 census had MoCo at 15% Asian American.  They don't break that down into East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, etc.  Some percentage of the 15% are either Hindu, Sikh, Muslim or Jain.

There are plenty of kids in MoCo schools that celebrate Diwali, so let me ask you where the dividing line should be?  What's the magic number that makes it okay to recognize another faith?

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Wow, you really don't want to answer the question while the PP has answered everyone of yours.  It is obvious this is a far stretch for you.

Anyway, the PP didn't mention this but it has always been about how/if the school district can operate, not if a small group of kids celebrate a holiday.  Ask some of your Indian Americans to be teachers or substitutes.  That should be the only way the schools are off.  Otherwise it is an excused absence.  The best course of action should be making sure high schools are aware of the holiday and be an advocated to the principal that there shouldn't be any tests the day of or day after.  Asking everyone to stay home is such a reach, it really is.  [/quote]

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