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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was raised Catholic in Massachusetts and we had school on Good Friday, I don’t know anyone who took it off. The town I was in was really, really Catholic. I don’t know the percentage but there were not too many other religions that I knew that were celebrated. There were 2 Catholic Churches in town but you had to go a few towns over to find a Protestant Church and even further for a Synagogue. I did not even know that there was a Muslim faith as a kid. It was the 1980’s in small town Massachusetts, kind of insular. The fact that I attended a few Bar Mitzvah’s was considered amazing by my friends at school. And the ones I attended where in family friends in Chicago.

I don’t know when people started missing school for Good Friday, most people just went to Church in the evening for Good Friday and Ash Wednesday. I think I made that choice as a college student after encountering people who took Good Friday off. Although, many of them took Good Friday off so they could head home for Easter early and less for religious reasons. [/quote]

I grew up in St. Louis.  It is a very, very Catholic town.

I don't recall any public schools having good Friday off.[/quote]

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