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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.[/quote]

We don't observe the Christian holidays.

Easter is on a sunday. So it is never observed by FCPS.

Christmas is a federal holdiay, on a week that every industry in our area including most of the federal government shuts down.

Christmas would be off no matter what, for secular reasons.[/quote]

Christian holidays are not acknowledged at all in the school calendar. Nor in communications.  It’s been many, many years since anyone from the schools wrote or said; “Merry Christmas to those who celebrate”.   All holidays, and school celebrations, have become “Winter” or “Spring” only, without any cultural (or religious) acknowledgment, ever.   That’s the status quo. [b] Jewish holidays have been added quietly.[/b]  Jewish appreciation is thrown together with Asian month, iirc.  Kids are not reading Anne Frank and still have not heard anything about WW2 in school. [/quote]

Are you kidding? All of this started years ago BECAUSE of Jewish holidays.[/quote]

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