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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every religion has at least 1 day off on the FCPS calendar.  Remember:  equity![/quote]

Yes, equity. How horrible it is to show respect to a diverse community & let them celebrate their holidays. /sarcasm

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Why does the public school system need to celebrate a religious holiday?  I thought libs wanted religion out of schools.  [/quote]

In many school districts the closings are not to celebrate the religious holiday, but for the same operational reasons that Christmas is "celebrated".  There are many teachers of Jewish or Muslim faiths and they need to take off to observe their religious holidays.  And with the teacher and sub shortage in the country, school districts with a significant population of staff that will be taking off, will not be able to staff all schools when those teachers take off.  So, would you rather that your children go to school and sit in a classroom unattended by a teacher?  Or have an untrained teacher's aide babysitting your children for a day?  Or be split up so that they are moved to overly large classes of like 35 where half the kids are sitting on the floor and no on is actually learning anything?  Very few school districts have been able to replenish both their staff and the substitute pool post-pandemic.  The new reality is that we just can't handle days when a significant portion of the bare bones minimal teaching staff take off.[/quote]

LOL, there is no data supporting an operational reason for FCPS to be off for any Jewish or Muslim religious holiday.  [/quote]

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