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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all these calendars and the multitude of religious days off is ridiculous. I don't know why we have to start 2 weeks before Labor Day because the religious camps insist on having their religion dictate the school calendars. If you must celebrate YK or RH, go to a Jewish school. Diwali or Bohdi Day? I guess go to an Indian school, or learn to adapt. And now we have Eid and Ramadan off?

Let's see how many more groups we can accommodate so that we start in July and have 2 days off each week. This wokeness is out of control.

And you religious folk need to stop forcing your religious observances on the rest of us. [/quote]

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This is an appalling attitude.  Even if you don’t think religious holidays should result in school closures, telling minoritized groups to go elsewhere is disgusting.   Opinions differ greatly and there is no calendar that will make everyone happy.  It’s okay to disagree and debate, but maybe try to be a little more respectful in your discourse. [/quote]

Absolutely not. If religious groups insist on pushing their religious observances on us, I will insist that they go elsewhere. Can you for one second image that we were shutting school for white Mormons or Evangelicals? The tone on this board would be incredibly different. But for some reason, we're fine with inserting religion back into school - even when we've worked so hard to separate public sector from it - provided its minority groups. It's hypocritical, and I'm calling the left out on it. Get rid of the religious days, and stick to fed calendar only. You need a religious accommodation? You'll get an excused absence, or you can find a religiously based schools like most of the Catholics that I know. [/quote]

+100[/quote]

So you are in favor of moving winter break to after second quarter ends in January?  [b]You can have Christmas day [/b]and New Year's Day off since they are fed holidays, but that's it.[/quote]

Why do you assume that Christmas is important to me? [/quote]

Try to follow along.  PPs were saying that only Federal Holidays should be days off.  Christmas is a Federal holiday, and would be a day off under that logic, whether it is important to you or not.[/quote]

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