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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we can close the school for 1-2 weeks for a Christian holiday, but giving other religions one day to observe is not okay with you? Give me a break. [/quote]

You are not reading carefully.

I have no problem closing the schools to students on the actual holidays.  I think that's a good thing.

What I am saying is that teachers who do not celebrate those holidays should use them as work days rather than having separate ones.

So like next week, we are closed for Diwali Monday, then a teacher work day on Tuesday...  What I am saying is we should have no students Monday, awhile anyone who doesn't celebrate Diwali uses Monday as a teacher work day.  Anyone who DOES celebrate Diwali gets monday off, and we pay for them to have a sub/temp some other time that week or month or whatever to make up their work day.

So now students don't have to be out two days, working parents have care, and every teacher gets their holidays and work days - at the cost of temps/subs to cover the additional holidays, rather than just fully sacrificing those days for students, like we are doing right now.[/quote]

Or, put more simply, students should get all of the religious holidays off - because anything other than that means kids celebrating those days have to miss a day of school their classmates are in.

Teachers and staff, on the other hand, should only get their own holidays, and should use the ones they don't celebrate as work days.  
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