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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the bus drivers and their community celebrate Ethiopian new year and many extended workers celebrate Vietnamese New Year. We should consider adding those to the calendar. I also would like to see Good Friday and Easter Monday added. This will ensure families can celebrate those days no matter when spring break is scheduled in future. I find it offensive it’s not named on the current calendar, frankly. [/quote]

Good Friday and Easter Monday have typically been off due to scheduling spring break according to Easter and making the day after a grade prep day. As one who observes holy week and Easter, I've never appreciated the extended spring break with Monday off. Also as one who observes holy week and Easter, I don't advocate Good Friday or Easter Monday being designated as holidays and days off from school. We can easily observe and celebrate Easter (and the accompanying events) without Friday and Monday off. If anyone really wants to go to an afternoon service on Friday, they can be excused and miss school without missing a lot of class or work. I'm not aware of any big services for Easter Monday.  It seems that's just because you want to travel and not come back on Easter Sunday.  We Christians have Easter. We also have Christmas and will likely always have Christmas Eve (not an actual holiday, I know - but several days around our actual "one" religious holiday of Christmas.  i wouldn't advocate for Epiphany and don't think it's necessary to push for Good Friday or Easter Monday, either).

I would advocate for the State to eliminate its stupid restriction around Labor Day; but I don't mind having a 4-day first few weeks of school to get back into the swing of things. I would much rather eliminate the day off for Veterans' Day when the actual holiday falls on the weekend, as it will next year.  If we didn't have election day off, I'd be all-in for the Veterans' Day observance. But I absolutely despite disjointed weeks.  I've been somewhat swayed by arguments that more could be done in observance of Veterans Day in school than out and would really like to see the curriculum require Veterans' Day activities and lessons rather than having the day off and nobody participating in any Veterans' Day activities. My family doesn't - and it's a shame. We should.  we get Memorial Day off - and people mainly "celebrate" rather than "memorialize" with picnics and parties and travel. Let's actually focus on the sacrifice and devotion of all veterans in November.[/quote]

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