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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should not have these holidays off or as observance days- 
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha[/quote]

Sounds about white. [/quote]

If my kids go to a Jewish school, they don't celebrate all the Christian and Pagan holidays so enough with your virtue signaling. My "whitness" can't move to move to India and demand the entire country to give all "whites" paid days off for American holidays? Your insistent cultural neediness is exhausting and disruptive to the learning of ALL students. If you want cultural handholding go to an international school, not public. [/quote]

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not. [/quote]

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone!  no one is getting what they need with this calendar.  Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else.  Church and state are separated in this country.
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[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine.  I will take the day off for my kids[/b].[/quote][/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st.  Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.[/quote]

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break.  Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week.  The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.  
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter?  Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school.  Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school.  This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same.  The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.[/quote]

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