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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the way, May 3rd isn’t a made up holiday.  It’s Eastern Orthodox Good Friday.  While that’s my religion and I hope that people don’t insult it, I don’t believe schools need the day off for it.  Most churches offer an evening service to accommodate since our entire lives prior to recently, it’s never been a school holiday.[/quote]

What percentage of students are eastern orthodox, and is it a high enough percentage that a significsnt number of students will miss school that day?

That should be the standard for having these cultural days off.  Otherwise, the students should just get an excused absence.

May holidays mess with AP exams.  Having off penalizes many students.[/quote]

In looking at the calendar there is some sort of day off approximately midway through most quarters. They are not holidays on the calendar and the teachers don't have the day off, but they are tied to some of the lesser know holidays. October 9 was a staff development day tied to Indigenous Peoples Day, nothing in Q2 but there are so many days off with Thanksgiving and winter break, School Planning day March 5 tied to the primary, and teacher workday May 5 tied to Orthodox Good Friday. What I can't remember is if they had these kinds of teacher workdays beyond the end of the quarter before "Equity" became such a driver of the school calendar.[/quote]

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