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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think having every religious holiday under the sun is absolutely absurd but maybe I’m in the minority.

Monday and Friday off this week after spring break?  Absolutely asinine. [/quote]

Monday and Friday this week are not religious holidays. Don't blame minority religions for your issues with the calendar.[/quote]

The BS "School Planning Day" is covering for Orthodox Good Friday. [/quote]

There are only 7 religious/cultural holidays on the calendar:

Rosh Hashanah 
Yom Kippur 
Diwali 
Christmas (tied to winter break)
Eid al Fitr
Easter (tied to spring break)
Eid al Adha

In some years, some of those fall on weekends or over the summer and don't affect the calendar at all.

It makes sense for them to line up teacher work days and planning days with other holidays to help people celebrate without having a bunch of extra days off. I agree that this Monday and Friday are annoying to have off, but they're not actually holidays on the calendar, and framing this issue as a problem with holidays is just scapegoating the holidays instead of addressing the issue of poorly timed/too many TWs/SPs and early release days.[/quote]

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