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[quote=Anonymous][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 gather a religious contingent to pick one between Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur and one of the Eids.  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]

Or get rid of all of them since this is a public, secular school system.

Any school board candidate who will advocate for getting rid of these absurd days off of school has my vote.[/quote]

Diverse school systems do have some of these days off. Diwali doesn’t seem to be a common holiday though and I’m not sure about Orthodox Good Friday. The thing is though, even teachers in these religions don’t need ALL of these days off. A teacher would need the Jewish holidays but not the others, the Eids but not the others, etc. You could easily make them all TWD but give a floating holiday for the teachers who have a religious observance on those days. [/quote]

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