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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diwali is a fun holiday. Our whole neighborhood celebrates with parties and fireworks. [/quote]

Couldn’t your celebration continue after school for those who are there for fun and not religious beliefs? Do we really need to shut the system down?[/quote]

MCPS does that for all religions- Jewish holidays, Ramadan, Easter, Christmas etc. As an Indian immigrant, I did not request or vote for this day to be given a school holiday. We still have to go to work and do not celebrate it until that evening. MCPS aligns those dates with end of quarter/ grading/ teacher work days- so no there are no extra school days off because of Diwali.[/quote]

Yes, MCPS tries to align these holidays with mid or end of marking period days for teachers.

This is part of inclusion that parent complained about because of Yom Kipper and rosh hosannah the system has closed for the last couple of decades due to the make up of teachers and student body.

As a Chinese immigrant, I also I did not request or vote for a day to be given a school holiday for lunar new year. We still have to go to work and do not celebrate it until that evening.  I’d prefer my kids be in school.

I’d rather they be in school rather than these crappy extended school year due to snow days. 
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As a HS student parent, I’m happy with the days off for my DC to take a break. 
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It would be nicer to have a longer winter break + maybe even a fall break vs all the following: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Passover, Eid. And I'm in a group that observes one of the above. I did not want this.

It should be an excused day off for those observing. Obviously, winter break and spring break are organized around Christmas and Good Friday.

After graduation, no workplace or college/university has all of the above days off.[/quote]

Why should spring break "obviously" be organized around Good Friday-- a holiday very few people observe in any public way.  It's a PITA to have spring break move all around the calendar when the semester deadline are fairly inflexible.[/quote]

For the same reason we get "Easter Monday" off as a holiday? [/quote] That doesn't explain spring break being the week of Good Friday despite that shifting weeks every year.[/quote]

That's just MCPS's longtime preference. Since the state requires Good Friday and Easter Monday to be days off, MCPS schedules spring break to be either the week before or the week after.[/quote] The last time they chose after was 2016 which will be 10 years. They should be having if the week after if Easter is before the 1st full week of April.
This year the break is 2 weeks earlier than last year. If they had chosen the week after it would only be 1 week earlier. Easter 2027 is another week earlier (3 weeks earlier than 2025) so the week before should not even be an option.[/quote]

Why not? The end of March feels like a good time for a spring break.[/quote] Too early given the mid to late June end date. If the school year ended by the 1st week of June I'd agree with you. 2.5-3 months after spring break with only a day or two off is a lot.[/quote]

It's the same 2.5-3 months from after winter break to spring break.[/quote] That is true but the longest stretch should not be at the end of the year. This is an ideal calendar although January-March is long. https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/fae640107bb948e59c1ffc043c580e4e 
Unfortunately Maryland law doesn't allow this.[/quote]

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