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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was it all a fake-out? If this had been the original recommendation there probably would have been a lot of grumbling about day before Thanksgiving or maybe something else.

Was the 1st recommendation just to make us see this as vastly superior, or am I giving him too much credit?[/quote]

I think he was trying to get the union to negotiate on the grading and planning days, and it didn't work.[/quote]

Seems that way.  It’s a stupid calendar because McPS has no intention of using the Passover and Eid teacher non instructional days as makeup days and if there is more than one snow day (which there probably will be) we’ll soon be back at the situation where McPS has to ask for a waiver again to approve them not providing 180 days of school to our kids. [/quote]

They made Passover a day off as too many teacher appropriately took off.  Why not remove a Christian holiday?

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The only actual Christian holiday on the calendar is Christmas. There is a 0.0% chance any school district anywhere in this country will plan for schools to be open on Christmas Eve or Christmas. Neither Good Friday nor Easter Monday are a Christian holiday, but those are days off because Maryland state law requires it. As a Christian I would have no issue with them changing that law, but MCPS can’t unilaterally do anything with those days. [/quote]

I wouldn't care if they made it a school day, but it's completely bizarre to claim that Good Friday is not a Christian holiday.[/quote]
I went to Catholic school from K-12 and we went to school on Good Friday. We went to mass during the day but we were in school.[/quote]

I am Catholic and from a very religious family.  We all went to school (public school) on Good Friday, although we may have left a bit early.  Services are at 3 or 3:30, because Our Lord died in the late afternoon.  It's not a full day religious holiday.  [b]And it's not even a Holy Day of Obligation[/b] (although my Mom certainly strongly implied that it was!).  We also went to Mass on Holy Thursday, but that's always in the evening, because it's the Last Supper, hence at Supper time.  
Orthodox people may celebrate it as a full day event, but Orthodox usually have a different Easter, so it's not really relevant.  
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It wouldn't make sense for Good Friday to be a Holy Day of Obligation, because Holy Days of Obligation are days on which Catholics are required to attend mass, and there's no mass on Good Friday.[/quote]

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