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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not have some "floating" excused absences allowed for staff or students  -- when it corresponds to religious holidays. But otherwise, keep the academic calendar rigorous with few days off.

Yes there will be some "honoring" of a religious holiday when the student doesn't actually practice that religion, some taking advantage. But it's got to be better than everyone being off from school for every conceivable religious holiday -- it's only going to worse (more religions, more holidays) going forward.[/quote]

This is the only viable solution.

Federal holidays off.

December 23-jan 1 off like it used to be.

Spring break decoupled form Easter.

3 free days for personal religious holidays.

If one of those religious holidays hits 30% absences or higher, put it on the calendar next year, not because it is religious but because it is a secular staffing problem.

There should be zero days off for holidays that don't have a fixed set days 1 year out.

The Eid AP exam debacle from a few years back due to the last minute floating date change of Eid was completely unacceptable.  Not only was there so much last minute uncertainty over the dates, the cancelation then uncanceling then keeping the wrong Eid date canceled but not the actual date unfairly disrupted learning from everyone else, took away the make up date option from kids who could make the 2nd date of the test since the original date was canceled, and required every student in the district to acknowledge a religion, whether or not they were from that faith tradition.[/quote]

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