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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none…. [/quote]

Thanks for wishing away our holiday[/quote]

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away. [/quote]

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.[/quote]

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it… [/quote]

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian  holidays.[/quote]

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.[/quote]

Good Friday is required by the state.[/quote]

As the made-up holiday of “Easter Monday.”[/quote]

The language the state uses is "The Friday before Easter and from then through the Monday after Easter."[/quote]

Not applied to Orthodox Easter which is also Easter[/quote]

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