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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The religious holiday "problem" is helped the next two school years by many of them falling on weekends.  In the 23-24 calendar there are only two stand-alone religious holidays:

Yom Kippur 9/25
Eid al Fitr 4/10

In the 24-25 calendar there are four, but two of them are paired with quarter-ends, so again, only two "random" days off.

Rosh Hashanah 10/3
Diwali 11/1
Lunar New Year 1/29 (TW, combined with Q2 end)
Eid al Fitr 3/31 (combined with Q3 end)

The problem comes in the 25-26 calendar when a bunch of them come during the school year.  I'm sure it would be completely insensitive, but I wonder if they could g[b]ather a religious contingent to pick one between Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur and one of the Eids.[/b]  Or just look at the absentee data from the past.

Rosh Hashanah 9/23
Yom Kippur 10/2
Diwali 10/21
Lunar New Year 2/17 (TW)
Eid-al-Fitr 3/20
Orthodox Good Friday (TW)
Eid-al-Adha[/quote]

This. I'm Jewish and growing up, when I was in high school and missing school became more difficult, we went to school on Rosh Hashanah. We would go to synagogue for the evening service. We always missed school for Yom Kippur. That is THE holiest day of the year. I don't think RH should be a school holiday. 
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