Anonymous
Post 07/27/2024 21:42     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:I think 10/4 is Rosh Hashanah. In MCPS, all major religious holidays are days off for students.

And yes re the Nov date - the day after the end of the marking period is always a day off for students.


Not all.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 10:52     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:October 3 is Mean Girls Day. Definitely warrants a day off from school.


LOL--OP here. I actually googled October 3 before posting to see what holiday it was, and that was what came up. Not sure why Rosh Hashanah wasn't mentioned.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2024 09:58     Subject: Re:Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, in MCPS, the following days are non-instructional days if they fall on a weekday...

Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Chinese New Year
Passover
Eid

Christmas & Easter always fall within Winter & Spring Break

I have high schoolers, and this was not the case when my kids began school here 10+ years ago.

I fall within one of the above non-instructional day groups and would rather have a longer winter break!


To be sure, winter and spring break are planned AROUND Christmas and Easter. It's a legacy from the days when they paid lip service to the notion of separation of church and state and pretended like schools didn't formally take off for Christian holidays. They always did, of course, since Christianity is the dominant religion in this country, but the fiction was that the breaks' proximity to those holidays we coincidental.


You mean back in the days when 95-99% of the population was Christian? The horror!!!

That was, um, never. Despite the whitewashing of history.


What? Check again…
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 23:38     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:School also closed on Oct 18 for YK Jewish holy
?


School is closed that day, but it isn't for Yom Kippur (which is Fri/Sat Oct 11-/12 this year).


Another holiday? We'll take it


No, Oct. 18 is a professional development day.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 23:19     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:School also closed on Oct 18 for YK Jewish holy
?


School is closed that day, but it isn't for Yom Kippur (which is Fri/Sat Oct 11-/12 this year).


Another holiday? We'll take it
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 22:35     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:School also closed on Oct 18 for YK Jewish holy
?


School is closed that day, but it isn't for Yom Kippur (which is Fri/Sat Oct 11-/12 this year).
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2024 22:29     Subject: Why is Thursday Oct 3 a Non-Instructional Day?
Anonymous wrote:School also closed on Oct 18 for YK Jewish holy
?


Is it?
Woo hoo a three day weekend!
They should give 31 Oct, Nov 1 in addition to already off Nov 4, Nov 5 for a 6 day weekend...Heck add in Nov 6 day after election no one wants to be back at school.