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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools should not be off on religious holidays in the first place. If your family celebrates a religious holiday your kid should be allowed to stay home that day with an excused absence. They should not close the whole school system down so you can celebrate.

What happened to the separation of church and state in America?!  If I wanted that, I would have stayed in my own country, not immigrated here.

Why do all the schools close on basically every religious holiday?![/quote]
Yes let's please stop pinning spring break to easter and winter break to Christmas and instead tie them to quarter end. Thank you!!![/quote]

Spring break is pinned to the spring breaks for surrounding school districts.

FCPS tried separating it from Easter recently, and it was a disaster.   Many teachers have kids in other districts and changing spring break created staffing and childcare issues galore.[/quote]
I don't know why we can't do things the way that universities and schools in most of the country do and tie fall and spring break to the end off the quarter. Not to mention winter break. So stupid. I am Hindu, I didn't even want Diwali off. I want my kids to have federal holidays off, and quarter breaks, the summer, and then I'm good.[/quote]

Well this year we do have fall “break” at the end of the quarter. It fell nicely and we have a 5 day weekend.

Spring break - FCPS tried to move this to a better timing spot two years ago. The teachers who live outside Fairfax county flipped out and raised holy hell at the idea of not having spring break at the same time that their own kids would since other districts stayed married to the Easter week paring.

Many many families (including Christian ones) in FCPS would love them to put spring break at the end of the quarter and divorce it from Easter because travel costs would be lower. But unless FCPS can get Loudoun and Arlington to match us in moving it that way it’s stuck attached to Easter for now given staffing issues. [/quote]

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