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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Separation id church and all aspects of school once and for all. Please![/quote]

+1 - while I agree no religious holidays or alignment, do what we should have that is best for education, we need to keep in mind that staffing challenges for when neighboring jurisdictions where teachers live that haven't adopted an education first policy. First item is acknowledging the real challenge in a problem. What should we do when staffing levels are lower due to needs of staff who live elsewhere? Maybe it's some sort of alternative class organization approach that requires less staff - partial consolidate classes of some sort?[/quote]

I don't think the random days off present any more of a challenge for teachers who live in other districts than they do for working parents all over the area.  Teachers work on teacher work days and manage to get their children child care.  Things like a lack of Spring Break alignment create more of a unique challenge b/c teachers can't just take a week off the 'week before' their spring break to go on vacation with their kids.  Alignment seems like a poor justification for keeping the extraneous religious holidays.  That being said, its pretty clear APS is going to enshrine them in policy- FCCPS is the leader on this one, but no one is following.[/quote]

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