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[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]
But spring break should be aligned with Easter and of course we need a full two weeks off around Christmas.[/quote]

I never said that but don't live in a country like the US that was "founded" by Christians and then complain about spring break being close to Easter or time off at Christmas- the HORROR. It's like you all have no idea where you live? Bes t of luck as you move to another country then and complain about them having holidays around their culture. [/quote]
Christian Nationalism? Really? That's what you're going with? [/quote]

That is what this entire calendar thing is about.  A return to when parents were in school so they can believe things are stable here in the USA.  Meanwhile the calendar doesn’t really have anything to do with the instability in the economy right now. [/quote]
When I was a kid, my school district (in the used-to-be-more-Jewish-but-wasn't-anymore side of the Chicago suburbs) closed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And for Pulaski Day. But we also went to school on Veterans Day (with an assembly to hear from local vets) and on election days (people just voted while we were in school and it was fine).

It's not new for school districts to close for minority religious holidays and cultural days. There are definitely ways to honor and celebrate the fact that the US is a multicultural society. It's wild for Christian nationalists to pretend this stuff is new and to try to write immigrants out of our national identity.[/quote]

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