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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think having every religious holiday under the sun is absolutely absurd but maybe I’m in the minority.

Monday and Friday off this week after spring break?  Absolutely asinine. [/quote]

Yes, you're in the minority. And you're an -ist of some sort.

Why is it absurd? Explain it to me like I'm five.[/quote]

DP.   Country did school for a long time with a basic formula.  Start after Labor Day, fall break, winter break, spring break, assorted federal holidays that occur outside of breaks, and end right around Memorial Day.

There are still school systems that successfully execute this basic formula.  
 [/quote]

Sounds like you are just stuck in a “back in MY DAY” thought loop.  Why does everything have to be dragged back to the 1960s to appease your sense of stability?  [/quote]

It doesn’t but look at what happens when you get rid of Lucy Caulkins and go back to phonics, kids learn to read again, even San Francisco is teaching Algebra in middle school again.  Nothing wrong with trying new ideas.  But when they don’t work there is no harm or shame in going back to what does work.  [/quote]

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