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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Jewish DCPS teacher, the only thing I resent is that in order to take my own high holidays off, I have to use personal days. Not so for Christian teachers...and FWIW,   students do have Easter Monday off. It's factored into the dates for Spring Break.[/quote]

I am Christian and celebrate Easter. [u]There is no sort of celebration whatsoever on Easter Monday[/u]. It's just not a religious day at all. Good Friday is much more religious and it's always a school day. [/quote]

You are clearly not for DC.  Easter Monday at the Zoo is a cultural day / tradition for African American Families.    It started over 100 years ago as African-Americans were not allowed to participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll - and many families were domestic help and required to work on Easter.

For Spring Break - DC messed up when they said a few years ago that it would always be around Emancipation Day - but only stuck to it for a year.  People complained - April is TOO late for a skiing vacation.[/quote]

For those who don't understand the Easter Monday school tradition please read this http://www.theroot.com/for-dc-easter-monday-at-the-national-zoo-is-an-african-1790859364

HOWEVER, it is no longer a school holiday and in a number of schools, attendance will be light. [/quote]

I'm convinced DCPS dialed back on giving off on Easter Monday partly because of the consistently chaotic scene at the zoo each year. Tons of unsupervised kids. There is always some sort of fiasco (a shooting a couple years ago).[/quote]

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