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According to MCPS:
There are 160,680 students, so 0.75% of students responded.
There are 24,246 staff, so 33.6% responded.

Of the 1/3 of staff who responded, about 15-17% said that they would take the Jewish holidays off.

When the survey came out, the county synagogues did a big push to make their congregants complete the survey.  That 33.6% of the staff respondents is most probably going to have much more of the Jewish teacher subgroup than the 66.7% so that 15-17% is much more likely to be close to 5% of the total teaching population.
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34% is a very high response rate for a survey like this.

I wonder how you know what the "county synagogues" did.[/quote]

I run an event once a week in one and saw posters and information posted.  I have several friends who attend several different synagogues in the area.  I know of at least 10 synagogues that were actively pushing their congregations to respond to the survey to "keep the Jewish holidays on the schedule."[/quote]

So you're saying that the people who it affects actually cared enough to respond to the survey because it was important to them? And you want to find fault with that as though they did something wrong by expressing their opinion about the very thing that the survey was asking? And the people who didn't care enough to respond to the survey should somehow have their voices heard louder than the people who actually did respond? And we should assume that because people didn't respond to the survey, then they don't think that the Jewish holidays should be a day off for MCPS staff and students?

Wow, you really have an interesting line of thinking there....[/quote]

No, you're making assumptions.

My only point was that the Jewish residents made it a point to go out and rally their support for keeping the Jewish holidays on the calendar.  And since they did so, you can assume that a disproportionate number of Jewish teachers actually answered the survey.  If 15-17% of those who responded said that they would take off for the Jewish holidays (1200-1300 out of 8155), it is likely to be a lower percentage of the total population that would take off the holidays in reality since those most affected would be much more likely to answer the survey.  15-17% of the total teaching population (24246) would be about 3600-4200 teachers.  I think realistically it is more like about 1800-2000 staff out of 24000 or more like about 7-8% of the staff who would take off, rather than 15-17%.  I think the majority of the Jewish staff were in the 1/3 of the staff who responded to the survey so it was not 15-17% of the total population that would likely be affected.

The comment at the top was the first time I had responded on this thread.  I made no judgment for or against keeping the Jewish holidays on the schedule.  I was only suggesting that the survey was more heavily weighted for the supporters of the Jewish holidays since they went out of their way to ask those affected to respond.  [/quote]

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