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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember my son had a Jewish teacher who took off on one of the Jewish holidays before they were mandatory days off…and he gave the class a quiz. Make it make sense.[/quote]

What are you talking about? The issue is the county was having trouble locating enough substitutes to cover the classes for the teachers that wanted to takeoff for the holiday.[/quote]

No. They did not. 
They first had no jsutificaiton for taking those days off other than the Calendar Committee (comprised of multiple religious groups mainly) recommended it. When the SB pushed back to question the legality of that and need for it they were tasked with pulling absentee data for those days and others. Unfortunately it didn't really show there was a problem. As i recall the absentee rates never seemed to rise above 5% except if it was a date otherwise kids would be out for (eg Fridays in late May or early June; wrapping with a long weekend where the Monday was a federal holiday, etc).

So then in the end they simply asserted - during the Covid return year i think in 2021 - that they were having trouble getting enough subs overall so therefore all these days were needed. No justification by data at all that specific days were the ones where subs were insufficient.  [/quote]

Can you link to the data where it was shown that subs were easy to obtain on those days?[/quote]

Nobody said it was easy.  But the data showed that there was nothing special about these new religious/cultural holidays in terms of teacher or student absences.  In fact, other random days had higher absentee dates, demonstrating that these are purely religious holidays with no operational justification.  [/quote]

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