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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My conspiracy theory about this is that FCPS noticed a lot of staff absences (IA’s, bus drivers, cafeteria aides etc.) during the Muslim holidays. At least at my kids’ ES, those positions are heavily held by Middle Eastern immigrants. So they thought that to help operations, they’d give the Eid’s off as holidays for everyone. But then someone questioned the optics of that and not giving the Jewish, Orthodox, Hindu etc. holidays too and even cultural celebrations like Dia de los Muertos, which was given as a “PW” day and an “O” day in the past. Lunar New Year too. So they just added all the holidays ever created so that no one would be offended. Now here we are. [/quote]

Yur thery is incorrect.

There was a committee comprised of various people including religious leaders that looked at the enrollment data to determinine which days to add to the calender based off attendance.

They came up with a much shorter list, of around 3  holidays.

FCPS added a bunch of other religious and cultural days, beyond the very short list originslly proposed
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