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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 29 school holidays this year. Which of these do you propose be removed?

2 - Labor Day
1 - Rosh Hashanah
1 - Yom Kippur
1 - Diwali
1 - Veterans Day
3 - Thanksgiving
1 - Christmas
1 - New Year's Day
8 - Winter Break
1 - MLK Day
1 - Presidents' Day
1 - Eid al Fitr
5 - Holy Week; Spring Break
1 - Memorial Day
1 - Eid al Adha

The other 10 days off are teacher work days, staff development days, and school planning days. Those aren't going away.[/quote]

These people want them all removed of any religious holiday that isn’t Christian, and any federal holiday that isn’t Thanksgiving, “holiday” (Christmas/NY), Labor or Memorial Day. Luckily it isn’t going to happen, though.[/quote]

Kids can easily be in school for Veteran's Day, MLK Day, President's Day, and Memorial Day. We can also have a shorter winter break - two full weeks every year is excessive.

We can also reduce the other 10 days  - we can do a better job of pairing them with the holidays in a given year (so we have a 3 day week instead of two four day weeks where the holiday occurs randomly in the middle of the week); we can also move some of the staff development days to the summer. (Yes, we'd have to pay teachers for that time. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!)

Also, definitely keep the Thanksgiving holiday at the 3 (or go back to the 2.5 it used to be.) Having be a full five a couple of years ago was insane. 
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