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Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

Sounds about white.

Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

You do realize the federal govt calendar has been this way for decades except for the addition of juneteetnth by Biden?

Federal vs local government. Saying a locality should just do what the feds do without any debate or other input is what I’m pushing back against. What works for adults doesn’t work for kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

You do realize the federal govt calendar has been this way for decades except for the addition of juneteetnth by Biden?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.