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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is home, again, for a random day, interrupting their school week and disrupting my work week.   This time it’s to allow voting in schools, despite the myriad of community and government centers spread over this County and despite the option to keep schools open— for example, have kids just in their classrooms (as they did in yonder years).

More than all the big picture forces shaping elections, the fact of my child sitting at home and never being in school for solid weeks of learning — because of issues which are led by Democrats (recognizing all religions, recognizing all holidays, maximizing everyone’s ability to have a voting site close as possible) impacts my life on a daily basis the most.   Someone out there in Democratic leadership please listen and restore sanity.[/quote]

What in the name of all sane things does the Democratic party have to do with your kids school days.  They have had that calendar for decades.[/quote]

The Democratic Party endorses APS school board members.  No non Democratic endorsed candidate has been elected in how long?  Decades?  Regardless the party takes a position on the school system and [b]the school system is engaged in nonstop performative progressive acts[/b] — fighting the gender/sex bathroom fight!  Feeding at risk families!   Recognizing all religions via closing schools!   Opening schools so everyone can vote at the nearest location!  What do you mean what does the Democratic Party have to do with my school days?  In Arlington, a lot.  [/quote]

It does feel performative and completely over the top on many issues.

They are forgetting that only a few years ago we didn’t have all these religious holidays in the calendar… and now any discussion, like “it’s not working very well” is met with scandalous blanket rejection and accusations .  So we were not inclusive in 2021?[/quote]

Correct, APS is doing better now. Why go backwards? [/quote]

It’s not “better” if you ask the Eastern Orthodox, of which we actually have a sizable population here, and for whom there are zero religious holidays.

Any time you’re picking winners, you’re picking losers. [/quote]

yeah i'm sure you're sooo concerned for the Eastern Orthodox[/quote]

The stated purpose of the giving all children the day off is ostensibly for recognizing religious holidays.  But, it isn’t tied to the religious population of our county.  It thus comes across as more performative nodding to progressiveness rather than a substantive analysis of how, for example, absence were impacting our school calendar.  [/quote]

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