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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where I work this problem is solved by giving everyone two floating holidays a year in addition to normal vacation time.

The idea is that these can be used to take off on religious holidays so that people are free to take off for theirs without everyone having to take off.  But their use is not limited to religious holidays; everyone gets them and can use them as they see fit.

If it was implemented in a way that teachers would have to give sufficient advance notice for using them, why couldn't this work?  [/quote]

Are you talking about adding 2 days of leave for teachers?  The cost in sub coverage would be enormous.

Are you talking about adding a requirement for sufficient advanced notice for teachers to use the leave they already have?

Also, what about students?[/quote]

Yes, people are forgetting the sub issue. There is not an endless supply of subs --MCPS already has to limit personal leave right before Thanksgiving, Winter Break, and Spring Break because there aren't enough subs to go around. Plus, subs are human beings not robots and also want to enjoy religious or cultural holidays with their families. I subbed before earning my certification. My then-husband was Jewish and I would have never subbed on the High Holidays had schools been open. I was too busy being the "Shabbos goy" and doing all the cooking, errands, etc while they were in shul.

To me, one solution is year round schooling with a long winter break between Thanksgiving and New Years. The other is to transition to more online learning for upper ES through HS. A relative teaches in a school system with both blizzard backpacks and a four day school week. The students do a lot of work online. My younger DD certainly could have handled math via a computer as a third grader. Give all students access to instruction via both Google classroom and a paper version. It's due in one week after the holiday or snow day. That is plenty of time to do it.[/quote]

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