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[quote=Anonymous]“ The cluelessness of those who demanded those 4 days is stunning. How can they ignore all the other holidays and demand 4 for just a few religions”

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Yes this is my thought too. While I think some of the days added to D are not needed the fact is that there are MANY more minority religions (and cultures - Lunar New Year) -in the county then just the 3 represented in A and B calendars. To cherry pick out those and overlook the rest is not fair. But it also is not practical to keep adding days for every minority day off that other countries celebrate.

I thought the Post opinion piece glossed over this entirely plus its inclusion of Easter in saying things are not fair made no sense since that is a Sunday and in D is not even connected to spring break anymore. Very few people are pushing to change that and keep spring break aligned with Easter (those that had complained are mostly just complaining about the week not matching other districts not necessarily that is NEEDS to be next to Easter).

The only reasonable argument re: Christmas is to point out that that break could be shorter. 10 days (12.23-1/1) would be fine and capture the period during which the entire country almost is shut down. But those saying we need to move winter break to make it equitable are unhinged from reality. The overwhelming majority of people in the US take time off during this period. This is the one period during which they could not staff schools in practice and would have practically empty rooms as kids would just not show for most of it (although personally we stay home so have them at school 12/28-/12/30 would be fine for me).

I think they will be working hard to actually adhere to the new calendar rules about tests and I think that is enough. [/quote]

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