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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I understand the inclusion of Jewish Holidays, It doesn’t make any sense to recognize the religious holidays of some and not of others. [b]Just make a wide variety of religious holidays test-free so that students can take off if they need to. 
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Calendar C makes the most sense.

Zero religious affiliation. 
Spring Break is even detached from Easter (although I wish they’d make the fixed week the last week of March or first week of April instead)

Plus they get out a week earlier

And while we’re at it, let’s shorten the whole year since we aren’t doing snow days anymore. 
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That is already the policy in FCPS. Do you know how many tests my now-HS students have missed on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur over the last 12 years? Too many to count. And do you know how many battles I've had with their respective schools? Same answer. The policy doesn't work and my kids are made to feel like slackers when they talk to their teachers about this on the front end and I'm made to feel like a nag when I deal it with it on the back end. I get that you can't relate to this because your holidays are sacred in the eyes of the school calendar and therefore you get what the big deal is, but it's a big deal to a lot of us.[/quote]

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