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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK obviously I should have paid attention to this earlier, but I'm looking at the calendar and there's a 5-day weekend around Labor Day?  We now have schools closed for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?  This is the first year this has happened, right?  I'm curious about what proportion of Arlington students observe these holidays.  There are also days off for Diwali and Eid al-Fitr.  Do we still have the same number of school days in the year?  For the record I'm agnostic but culturally Christian, I would be more than happy to swap out existing Christian-based holidays for any of these other religious observances.[/quote]

Christmas is the only Christian-based holiday in the APS calendar, unless you count scheduling spring break around holy week but that is a regional thing. Christmas is a federal holiday so giving that up wouldn't make much difference. [/quote]

Why wouldn't you count scheduling spring break around holy week? To my count, that's two major Christian holidays that everyone has off as a matter of course.[/quote]

Easter is always on a Sunday.  Everyone has it off no matter what you do with the school calendar.[/quote]

But having the week leading up to Easter and often the day after Easter off certainly makes it easier for those who celebrate Easter to make plans. It does not seem like agnostic scheduling to me.[/quote]

Of course it's not agnostic scheduling. But my point is that you don't have to schedule and extended break in order for people to have the holiday off - in fact, you don't need to schedule any days off at all because it is always on a Sunday.  Families can "plan" for Easter just as easily with a calendar that doesn't have an extended break associated with it.  Easter Sunday is clearly marked on calendars and the date is readily available anytime someone needs to check when it is.

I believe your point is really about traveling for Easter, and yes, having time off certainly makes that easier. But everyone who celebrates Easter does not travel for it, or have visitors coming in for it. though I'd be curious to know how many actually do specifically in order to observe Easter (and not just because it's also spring break), I would put my money on the bet that far more people travel for Christmas than for Easter, particularly since Christmas (a Christian holiday) is "celebrated" by many non-Christians. It's also a time with multiple holidays so an extended break is logical.  [/quote]

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