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FCPS can't control when a holiday happens, but [b]they can certainly choose not to take the day off.  [/b]There should be no explicitly religious holidays on the public school calendar.[/quote]

Christmas is also a secular and cultural federal holiday in the US. It is the biggest holiday in the US, bigger than Thanksgiving, in case you haven't noticed.  The secular, non religious, non Christian Christmas "season" stretches from shortly after Halloween until January 1.  A tremendous part of our consumer economy is centered on Christmas, more than on any other holiday on our calendar. Christmas is part of the fiber of American culture, not just religious traditions but secular traditions.

It is one of the original federal holidays.

FCPS could not have school on Christmas or Christmas Eve because they would not have enough students or teachers to run the school.

Throwing out "but but but... Christmas" is a dumb argument that has no substance behind it and shows almost no understanding of American secular cultural history.[/quote]

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