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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should only get Federal Holidays off. We don't need Yom Kippur off.[/quote]

I'm the outlier that loves all the random days off in FCPS.  The long weekends give us a chance to see family, relax, whatever.

I completely disagreed with the previous O day policy where they couldn't teach any new material or give a test or take a field trip.  That was more of an issue than the days off.  But recognizing major religious holidays with a school closure is fine with me.[/quote]

That's cool. Some parents work for a living. [/quote]
So use a vacation day? It must be so easy to just take a day, since that's the suggestion for Jewish teachers and students to just take time off to observe Yom Kippur.[/quote]

It’s not hard to take A day off particularly to mark a day you celebrate. It is burdensome to have to take like 5-6 days off all for holidays you don’t celebrate. It’s not just Yom Kippur. It’s multiple other days that were added too. [/quote]
It's 4 days and they don't all even fall on school days every year. Rosh Hashanah was on a weekend this year and sometimes Eid is in the summer. Calm down.[/quote]
Oh, guess what! Diwali is also on a weekend this year. So there are only 2 religious holidays in the calendar this year: Yom Kippur on Monday and Eid in April (let's not do all this complaining again in April, please). It's not "5-6 days off." At most, it's going to be 4 days in a given calendar year, if none of them fall on weekends or summer.

Next year, it's only 3 days, because Yom Kippur falls on a weekend.[/quote]

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