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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2020, 3% of the the adult living in Fairfax County identified as Jewish.  (This does not include the under 18s and does not include employees that live outside of the county)

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Hindus are around the same percentage (diwali off)

Orthodox Christians are a much tinier group.  Are they even 1%?  Yet we have Orthodox Epiphany off (Jan 17) and Orthodox Easter off (April 10)

FCPS gives Day of the Dead/All Saints Day off. (Nov 1)

That one is a complete head scratcher.  Catholics (and Mexicans) do not view that as a day to take off work or school.  All Saints Day is a Holy Day of Obligation, but you don't take off work or school to meet the obligation.  You simply go to Mass in the early morning or to one of the many evening Mass options.  All Saints Day is not a particularly huge feast day accompanied by a bunch of significant religious and cultural traditions that require one to take off work and school.

Giving All Saints Day/ day of the dead off as a religious cultural holiday is performative and shows that FCPS doesn’t understand the holiday.

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November 1 is not a day off.[/quote]

It has been on past calenders.[/quote]
I’ve worked in FCPS for 25 years. I promise that All Saints Day has never been a religious holiday. If there was no school that day, it’s because it was a weekend or a teacher workday. [/quote]

The calender lists it as All Saints Day/ Day of the Dead, so FCPS acknowleges the day off as a religious holiday.[/quote]

Look at the calendar again.  It is NOT a day off.  No where does it say it is a day off.  Please link the calendar.[/quote]

Well it frequently falls on a Saturday or Sunday for the next couple years, so jumping ahead you can see in 2027-28 it’s off. There was a bunch of talk at the SB meeting when they added this. They decided to give it off for the holiday, but line it up every year as the official end of the quarter (you’ll notice every other quarter moves end dates a bit from year to year, except the first to accomodate this)

The SB meetings are all online you can still find it I’m sure but I’m not digging around for it.

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-02/2027-2028-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf[/quote]

Ding! Ding! Ding!  It follows the quarter end.  Friday before is Diwali which is listed as a holiday.  Monday, Nov 1 is a "School Planning Day" and Nov 2 is a "Teacher Workday," which is traditional at the end of the quarter.

And, if it was a holiday on a prior year, it is because it was Quarter end Teacher Workday.  It has never been a school holiday because of religion. Not in FCPS.[/quote]
You're all idiots. They give it off to set up for the election which is on the next day.[/quote]

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