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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every religion has at least 1 day off on the FCPS calendar.  Remember:  equity![/quote]

Yes, equity. How horrible it is to show respect to a diverse community & let them celebrate their holidays. /sarcasm

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Rastafarians? No insult to them (just an example), but if everyone was to get a holiday, there would be no school. What should be the size of the student population or petition necessary to get a holiday?

I don't have the answer.[/quote]

You are not actually comparing Jews to Rastafarians [/quote]

Are YOU saying Jews are more important than Rastafarians? [/quote]

I am saying you cannot seriously compare taking a day to celebrate the holiday of one of the 3 major Abrahamic religions to taking days off for every single faith no matter how niche. There is a huge difference between schools saying let’s take off for Buddhist and Rastafarian and Bah’ai and Pagan and whatever else holidays and schools saying, this is a major Jewish holiday that many people observe. [/quote]

Do you have any rough numbers for Fairfax? Relatively it may not be that many.

I think there is just some general frustration that there are lots of partial weeks (disruptive for many families) and despite the fact that school starts much earlier, it still doesn't end until mid June.

[b]I personally think there are too many other closures and the winter break is at least 3 days too long[/b].[/quote]
Yes, 2 weeks + 1 day is too long for winter break. And 1 week + 2 days is too long for spring break (though I recognize this year that they just tacked on end of the quarter days at the end, instead of breaking up the following week. Those long breaks are more problematic than 2-4 extra days here and there.[/quote]

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