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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at your calendar for the current year. We had Monday, 9/14/15 OFF this year. So, there won't be any real change next year with this holiday. Simmer down, folks.[/quote]

Actually it IS a big deal, thanks to the Board of Education deciding that 9/12/16 is a holiday for students but a Professional Day for teachers.  Teachers are PAID to work.  Since they made this a Professional Day, a Professional Day had to be moved from elsewhere in the calendar or it would have cost $7 million in salary.

On 9/14/15 and every other Jewish holiday, schools were closed for students AND staff.

Simple solution would be to treat 9/12/16 like 9/14/15 and just close for everyone.  But no, our Board of Education just can't keep from tripping all over themselves to make asinine decisions.[/quote]

[b]9/14/15 wasn't a Jewish holiday. It was a professional day[/b]. [/quote]

Wrong!  9/14/15 was Rosh Hashana.[/quote]

But it wasn't listed as a holiday.  Remember, we got rid of all holidays.  [b]So now we will just have 2-3 days off in Sept/Oct for "professional days."[/b] [/quote]

I don't think you understand what a Professional Day is. A PD is one where teachers and staff are working, such as the 5 days before the first day of school, and then 1 day after each marking period ends.

This school year, 9/14 and 9/23 school was closed for both students and teachers. Those days were not PDs.  (The calendar reads "No school for students and teachers.")

The Eid holiday, for some crazy reason, was requested to be a Professional Day, not a student and teacher holiday.

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