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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m loving the simplicity of National Presbyterian’s calendar! Wow!

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It’s a lot easier when you are a religious school and don’t have to accommodate more than one religion’s holidays. [/quote]

The public school shouldn't be accommodating any religious holidays.  And before someone drags up Christmas, it's far more than than a religious holiday in the US.[/quote]

So you think we should accommodate only Christian religious holidays?[/quote]

DP. I don’t think they should accommodate any religious holidays. I don’t care if they want to have school on Christmas, but the fact is that most other businesses take the day off (and it happens to be a federal holiday) so it will be hard to get anyone to come in on that day. [/quote]

I'll just note for the crowd that Christmas isn't even a school holiday. Winter Break covers that week, but Christmas itself isn't celebrated.

The Jewish and Muslim holidays are explicitly religious holidays and should not be celebrated by the public school.[/quote]

I'm fine with chalking up Xmas / Winter break for that reason but I think they should get rid of all religious holidays and stop pegging spring break to easter.[/quote]

I grew up in the Bible Belt.  Our spring holiday was not tied to Easter.  [/quote]

Same. Spring break should be tied to quarter end, PERIOD.[/quote]

I went to Carholic school.  Our diocese spring break was not tied to Easter.  We had school on Holy Thursday and went to Mass that evening after school.  Good Friday was off.  But that was not spring break.

However, the rest of Northern Virginia attaches spring break to Easter.  As a result, FCPS should have spring break attached to Easter too, unless they can get the 4 other public school districts in the area to change their spring breaks.  It was too difficult for many support staff and teachers to have a spring break detatched from Easter, as many of them live out of the district with their own kids in districts with spring break tied to Easter.

I think most of the practicing Christians and Catholics prefer spring break not be tied to Easter, as we are attending the holy day services and Masses, not vacationing.  The holy week leading up to Easter is a time of fasting and somber reflection for practicing Christians and Catholics, not partying on the beach.

A spring break not tied to Easter is actually better for most practicing Christians, while a spring break tied to Easter is more favorable to secular people for whom "easter" is about bunnies and egg hunts.  Claiming a spring break tied to Easter is all about favoring Christians is not quite accurate.[/quote]

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