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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I submitted comments to dump all the religious holidays (including separating spring break from Easter) and just allow religious observances. But, yeah, not going to happen.[/quote]

Easy for you to say when you already know you’ll have no school for Christmas and Easter. [/quote]

I’m agnostic so don’t care about any of it. But winter break will never change because too many companies work around it as well. I’d be fine with a shorter winter break too. [/quote]

I’m not saying get rid of winter break - I’m saying keep the fall holidays. [/quote]

Right. But the implication was that I was okay getting rid of the fall religious holidays because I have my Christian holidays. And I'm saying I don't think we should have any of them, Christian ones included (i.e. separate spring break from Easter). Let people have religious holidays off as needed without any penalty (no tests etc). FCPS ultimately went this way.

Either way, I agree the surrounding counties should all try to align better, and specifically spring break.[/quote]

But as you admit, we will never get rid of winter break - so Christmas is covered no matter what happens. The only ones negatively impacted by getting rid of fall holidays are the ones that celebrate the fall holidays. [/quote]

Then are you advocating to add other religious holidays that aren't currently included in the calendar? Schools cannot possibly be inclusive of everyone. So just make religious holidays a time that people who celebrate it can take off. That way nobody is excluded.[/quote]

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