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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t the calendar choices out there for us to vote on. And the calendar with the majority is the one they use. I mean you get the calendar three years in advance. How are you not planning ahead it’s not like you get the calendar month-to-month. If you don’t like it, then run for school board.[/quote]

Did you actually do the calendar survey? There was no option to vote against the ton of extra days added that only a small minority of the system needs off on. [/quote]

I for one am glad that our school system respects a good number of minority groups in similar measure to majority groups.[/quote]

I'd rather [b]the school system respect academics and sound operating principles[/b].  Feel free to celebrate your religion on your own time, but let the rest of us go to school. [/quote]

That's exactly what they're doing, you just don't care to see it.[/quote]

This isn’t true. There is no pedagogical backing for such a disruptive calendar and most early childhood education experts would agree.[/quote]

Holding school on a day which will disadvantage students of particular faiths is not respecting academics (or at best, it is only respecting academics for students not of that faith) and is certainly not a sound operating procedure.[/quote]

Then we certainly shouldn’t have any classes during the entire month of Ramadan. Or Good Friday.  Because that absolutely disadvantages students who fast.
 
And yet we do, and we expect students to muddle through and find ways to practice their faith even if it is difficult— in fact when its supposed to be difficult. So fasting for Yom Kippur should be somehow different?

No religious holidays. Again, I don’t even care about Christmas. Kids deserve a stable schedule especially in the early years when repetition is so important.[/quote]

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