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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That’s because it’s a Saturday. The holiday is still listed because it’s always off when it’s not on a weekend. They plan the end of the quarter around it so it’s always a 4 day break. [/quote]

Exactly.

But if you ask any Catholic, practicing Cathokic or just culturally catholic, they will tell you unequivocally that All Saints Day should not be a day off school.[/quote]

All Catholics feel this way? Is this why schools in all of Italy and France shut down?

I’ve heard Catholics upset when it wasn’t off because their church only had morning services.

I think maybe some people within a religion may have differing thoughts. [/quote]

Not sure what the schools in France or Italy have to do with FCPS.  [/quote]

I guess you didn’t see the comment I was replying to. So here ya go:

“But if you ask any Catholic, practicing Cathokic or just culturally catholic, they will tell you unequivocally that All Saints Day should not be a day off school.”

Just responding to this absolute falsehood. Catholics all around the world take the day off. There’s way more countries all over Europe and South America where all schools close for catholic observance of the day.

Maybe white bread yuppie Catholics in NOVA sit it out, but they don’t speak for all.

And to go a step further, maybe you’ve noticed we have a high population in of South American catholic students?
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I read your comment and it's still irrelevant. I'm sure many countries take varying religious and other holidays off.  It's irrelevant to an American school system.

And no I haven't noticed we have a lot of South American Catholic students. How would anyone know that?[/quote]

You would know it if you were familiar with the demographics of the county.[/quote]

Sure, go ahead and show us these demographics that show South American Catholics students.[/quote]

Have you not noticed any Latinos in the DCUM area? [/quote]

LOL, now you're moving the goalposts.  Hilarious to watch. [/quote]

I'm so confused. Do you really not believe that we have a lot of students from South/Central America in FCPS? Do you really not realize that many of the immigrants from South/Central America are Catholic?[/quote]

We know you're confused, because you've gone from South American, to Latino, to South/Central American students.  None of these are the same. And there certainly aren't enough of them to justify closing schools. [/quote]

Maybe not where your kids go to school. At the last 2 schools that I’ve taught at (30 minutes apart), they make-up 30-50% of the population. One year, I had 3 white students.[/quote]

And, they are still not wanting off for November 1st.[/quote]

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