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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Let’s get rid of all of the new religious holidays.”

Same Breath: “That Busdriver should get his day off too.”

Unserious people sowing discord. You got what you wanted. But let’s argue about a done deal for weeks anyway because none of us have a life.[/quote]

Sounds like you don’t want any momentum to build around changing the policy to floating holidays. [/quote]

I support the current religious holidays as days off for APS. And lol there's no momentum aside from your complaining on anon boards. Even Miranda said yesterday publicly that this vote wasn't a moratorium on changing the religious holiday policy.[/quote]

Just wait until APS starts blocking off three consecutive days for each Eid as “possible” days off. Nothing will be allowed to be planned for those days and no one will know until a few weeks in advance which day will be off. Next year it’s the week after Memorial Day and if Eid moves it will be a one day week. People are gonna get sick of this pretty quick. [/quote]

That’s precisely what was suggested at the meeting last night. Making sure that principals and PTAs knew they would not be able to schedule anything on the days before and after holidays that were dictated by the lunar calendar.  [/quote]

I don't understand the problem with telling schools not to schedule extra things on those few days.  Can someone explain it to me?[/quote]
Both occur at busy times of year and have an alternative (floating holiday/excused absence)[/quote]

I think keeping those days clear is best.  It would really sad for those kids who end up missing out on the end of year activities.  It is also a tough position to put a teacher in if this is a holiday they observe and they've also been working with their kids to plan the end of school activity.  Planning things a few days earlier or later doesn't seem as challenging to me, but I realize others might have a different view.[/quote]

APS needs to get rid of all the religious holidays. But then have clear notices on calendars that events can't be scheduled on those days to respect people observing them.[/quote]

So people say this but what would happen if we moved winter break to January and uncoupled it from Christmas. If kids had to go to school on Christmas eve.  People would be outraged. [/quote]

Too many people are at least nominally Christian, so this won't happen until the system is minority Christian.[/quote]
Oh stop.  It's not about Christianity at this point.  America has a tradition of scheduling a winter holiday break between Christmas and New Years holidays.  This holiday break applies across all Americans.  Some celebrate Christmas, others go on vacation or get Chinese takeout and go to a movie.  But it's a common holiday week across the country.  It's a time for families to get together since pretty much everything shuts down, from schools to kid sports to many offices.

So no, the week for winter break wont change even if the country was no longer majority Christian.  It's now part of American culture and aligned across the country.[/quote]

Displaying the national flag used to be a universal part of American culture, too.  Things can change and honestly, if a school system's population changes to the point where no one religion has a majority or the majority religion changes, it makes sense that the calendar changes too.  Maybe every holiday gets 2 or 3 days or only one day with no tests or required group projects the day before or after.

https://time.com/5675803/america-flag-threat/
[i] Still, he’s not a trailblazer as much as he’s a powerful spiritual co-signature for a pervasive ecosystem of long-simmering beliefs. That the only True Americans are white. (The rest? Guests.) That there’s such a thing as less American Americans. That the flag belongs only to the True Americans.[/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/nyregion/american-flag-politics-polarization.html
[i]What was once a unifying symbol — there is a star on it for each state, after all — is now alienating to some, its stripes now fault lines between people who kneel while “The Star-Spangled Banner” plays and those for whom not pledging allegiance is an affront.
And it has made the celebration of the Fourth of July, of patriotic bunting and cakes with blueberries and strawberries arranged into Old Glory, into another cleft in a country that seems no longer quite so indivisible, under a flag threatening to fray.[/i]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-school-suspends-marine-hopeful-after-american-flag-law-controversy
[i]The Baltimore County Public School system has allegedly suspended a high school student after he pushed his school to hang American flags in two of his classrooms that did not have flags displayed, as required by state law.
Parker Jensen, an 18-year-old Marine Corps enlistee, has since sued the school district, arguing he was wrongfully suspended for voicing his concerns about the flags at Towson High School, north of Baltimore. The flags were missing from two of his classrooms, and he approached the Baltimore Board of Education about the issue.
"He really thought there'd be something that could be resolved easily, and he was looking forward to finishing out his senior year," Jensen's attorney, Sarah Spitalnick, told Fox News Digital. "He's definitely discouraged that the school took this route in the way they retaliated and punished him. And it did… put a big damper on his senior year. At this point, he's still not allowed to go to prom. … He still has teachers that he knows do not like him. That could affect his grades and affect his ability to graduate."[/i][/quote]

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