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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

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If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed [/quote]

Teachers and students can observe their religious holidays as appropriate. Which they do and request time off. School systems decide to close the whole systems for some of the days as it is too hard to find that many substitutes and have a lot of kids miss school. If you want fewer if those days off, move to a less diverse area. [/quote]

It's literally never been an issue to staff schools on those days in the past.  It's why they did the shindig with "O" days last year--to make it look like school attendance was down in order to justify the days off, because it is illegal to base public school decisions on religion that does not impact attendance.[/quote]

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