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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The August start should require FCPS ending Memorial Day weekend.

Each student should get 2 "free" days off for cultural and religious holidays, with the only religious holidays with no school being the ones where a large number (10%?? 15%??) Of students and teachers traditionally misding school.

Spring break should be tied to the end of the quarter.

Winter break should only go from 12/23-1/1, with school resuming on the 2nd. Getting off for Christmas is justified because of the sheer numbers of teachers and students who would miss that week, the federal offices and major businesses all closing or completely empty over that week, and the national holiday and cultural history of Christmas in the USA, not only as a religious holiday but also as a secular cultural holiday."

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I'm waiting for the rich white moms to come on and say "but, but, the international families travel home during that two weeks" as a way to justify their own international vacations over Christmas break.[/quote]

Except it's true. A great deal of people, from countries that don't celebrate Christmas, do travel home and some go for longer than two weeks. I don't travel during those two weeks because it's too expensive to do so. I'll drive to WV during winter break and stay off the mountain for a few days. I go out West over spring break because it's cheaper, they still get snow out West, especially so, when spring break is in March. Otherwise I'm a local, with local family, and I don't need to travel over winter break, and I think two weeks is too long. [/quote]

Call me crazy, but I would never move to another country and then expect the school calendar to be built around my desire to travel to my home country at a specific time of year. I would wait until there was a longer break from school, such as summer, to make that trip. Whatever happened to adapting to your surroundings?[/quote]

My kid studied abroad to a non western country, and had classes both on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

They never would have thought to insist that schools were closed for a western religious holiday that is not a primary holiday in that country.[/quote]

They might consider it if 1000 students were Christian.[/quote]

No, they wouldn't.

There are thousands of Christians in that country.  They still go to work and school on Christmas. [/quote]

Eid isn't the "random day off" that everyone is talking about. I do think the major religious holidays should be days off. Let's get rid of Columbus day, All saints day, Veteran's Day, 3 kings day, Orthodox Christmas, lunar new year (not religious), Ash Wednesday, Juneteenth. Runners up would be Diwali and Bodhi day. I went to Catholic School and we didn't have Ash Wednesday off. Services were early in the morning and then you wore your ash cross all day at school. Most federal holidays should not be school holidays unless they're major. Veteran's Day, Columbus Day, and President's Day are great teaching days.[/quote]

We’ve always had Columbus Day off, you nut.[/quote]

Why should we have "Columbus day" off? [/quote]

Because it was the day Columbus discovered America. [/quote]

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