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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.[/quote]

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.[/quote]

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days.  They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks.  It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year.  At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.[/quote]
School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on. [/quote]

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.[/quote]
School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence. [/quote]

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