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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I am 37 and went to MCPS. When I was in elementary, the schools were not closed for YK or RH. However, students who stayed home to observe the holidays had an "excused absence" and I think some of our teachers stayed home too. I was at Burning Tree and at that time I would say maybe 1/3 of the students in each class were Jewish. I don't know the amount today. Basically, having that many people out on the same day just meant that the work and teaching had to be done again the next day. I think that the school system is just being practical.[/quote]

[quote]I'm 41 and went to MCPS my entire life. I remember being off for the holidays in middle school and high school. I honestly cannot remember ES but I know I was absent for those days anyway. My mother went to MCPS also and she tells stories of having to go to the principal and getting an unexcused absence every single time she was out for a Jewish holiday.[/quote]

Hmmm, this is weird because I'm 39 and went to two different MCPS elementary schools in the B-CC cluster instead and distinctly remember them being closed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And I did not go to MCPS for middle or high school so that is not what I'm remembering.
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