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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a great solution. So much ignorance displayed here.  [/quote]

Agreed.  Every.  Single.  Year.  a bunch of people b*tch and moan because MCPS is closed on the Jewish holidays.  It's not FOR the Jewish holidays.  It's ON the Jewish holidays.  Because of a high rate of absenteeism.  Every single year it's the same complaints and people getting their panties in a bunch thinking everyone is trying to attack their Christianity.  MCPS doesn't care what holidays you celebrate or don't.  MCPS DOES care whether it has the staff to run its schools on school days.  Do you honestly think this change will have any affect whatsoever on you?  Or how you celebrate your holidays?  Or whether or how such holidays are discussed or celebrated within your child's classroom?  It won't.  Stop actively looking for things to complain about.  Some people have ACTUAL PROBLEMS.[/quote]

Jewish people are the only ones who got their way and have 2 of their holidays sometimes in the middle of the week completely off.  It is ridiculous.  I don't blame the Muslims for being pissed.  So what are going to be the reasons we have off in September twice next year?   What are they going to put on those days off if they aren't religious-based. Just because a few small areas in Rockville/Potomac/Bethesda have Jews doesn't mean the entire county has to be off for 2 days.  Easter is on a Sunday, Christmas is over winter break which includes New Years.  There are no Christian holidays the county is off for.   Religious holidays are an excused absence but no reason why the whole county needs off.   [/quote]

Good Lord, can you read?  They "get their holidays off" because there are enough staff NOT SHOWING UP FOR SCHOOL that they can't afford to keep the school open.  Thus, we will have the same two days off next year.  FOR THE SAME REASON.  It doesn't take anything away from you.  If it weren't these 2 days, MCPS would have a different two days off somewhere else in the calendar, or at the beginning of the year, or the end.  You get the same number of days of instruction.  [/quote]

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