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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think ALL religious holidays ought to be removed, including "Easter Monday" (which is not a thing).

Make religious holidays an excused absence and move along.

As for the so-called "operational reasons" for having YK and RH off, I'm calling BS. I've had kids in the MCPS system for a looooong time and substitutes are pretty much uniformly retired teachers, mostly African American. Yes, there are Black Jews. No, there is not a critical mass to the point that it would influence ability to get subs. [/quote]

I don't think the operational argument is that the [i]subs[/i] take off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.[/quote]

That is exactly the argument a PP made. And I quote: "I'm sure you'll all be on here complaining when schools are open on Jewish holidays and [b]there aren't enough subs in the system[/b] to cover all of the vacancies. Schools aren't closed on Jewish holidays for religious reasons. They're closed for operational reasons. Schools can't even fill all vacancies from the sub system on a regular day."[/quote]

The PP is saying that the TEACHERS take off. When the teachers take off, then you need subs. And there aren't enough subs to fill in for the teachers taking off.

Hasn't your child ever had a paraprofessional or administrator or other teacher take over the class when the teacher was out, because the teacher couldn't get a sub?[/quote]

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