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[quote=Anonymous]Another Catholic that thinks they should do away with all the religious holidays UNLESS there is an operational reason.

The school has to accommodate the teacher's religious observances, so if the demographics of the teaching staff mean that they will not be able to adequately cover classes on a particular religious holiday, it makes sense to have it off.  It might be worth thinking about having those holidays double as teacher planning days --- and the teachers that can't use that as a planning day due to religious obligations could trade out a different day, for which they could get a sub in their classroom.

But I am concerned about the ability to cover classrooms during the Jewish holidays.  A lot of my kids' teachers are Jewish, and most Jews do observe the two high holy days.  Unlike Catholics, almost none of which still go to mass on Good Friday (and even if they do, mass is at 3:30 and there are churches all over MoCo, so they could leave school at 3:15 and still make it, in most cases).  I think a PP that posted that there are not enough subs is correct -- my kids repeatedly tell me that they had to combine two classes (so 25+25 kids) into one because a teacher was out  sick.  If they have 10% of the teachers out because of a holiday, can they cover that with subs?  That would be 1200 subs.  Even if only 3% of teachers are Jewish, they would still need about 400 non-Jewish subs.  Can they reliably pull that many on a particular day?[/quote]

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