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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK obviously I should have paid attention to this earlier, but I'm looking at the calendar and there's a 5-day weekend around Labor Day?  We now have schools closed for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?  This is the first year this has happened, right?  I'm curious about what proportion of Arlington students observe these holidays.  There are also days off for Diwali and Eid al-Fitr.  Do we still have the same number of school days in the year?  For the record I'm agnostic but culturally Christian, I would be more than happy to swap out existing Christian-based holidays for any of these other religious observances.[/quote]

So it's only ok to observe these holidays as a school system if a certain proportion (defined by you) culturally observes?[/quote]

Schools don’t observe religious holidays. To the degree days off coincide with them, that’s a pragmatic consideration based on proportion of staff and students that observe them. So on one level, it’s a fair question— why take off on Yom Kippur if it’s less than 1 or 2% for example? There would be no disruption to the classroom.[/quote]

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