Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:46     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.


Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.


They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:33     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.


Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:29     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Repetition is good for learning. Consistency is good for learning.

This celebrate does not support either! It public school. We don’t need ever single religious holiday off. That doesn’t help the majority that need to be in school and learning.


So by your logic, they must lose a lot of information over the weekend because that’s two days off in a row.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:26     Subject: All these days off...
Repetition is good for learning. Consistency is good for learning.

This celebrate does not support either! It public school. We don’t need ever single religious holiday off. That doesn’t help the majority that need to be in school and learning.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:26     Subject: All these days off...
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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.


Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.

Let the rest of us go to school.


You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.


Christmas is not a school holiday.


Yes, it is - just wrapped around two weeks off


So it's not a holiday. Thanks for playing.


So…if they took Christmas Day and made it a regular school day and then scheduled the winter break in late January, you think everyone would be totally cool with that?

Thanks for playing.


How can you not understand that it is not the same thing? Almost the whole country - including many non Christian’s - celebrates Christmas. Everything gets SUPER quiet from 12/23-1/1 because SO SO SO many people are out on vacation then. That is the dynamic for this country. No other holiday has that dynamic. Including Easter.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:23     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of it is clearly virtue signaling by the liberal School Board (I’m on the left, but this is obvious) and some of it is actual operational need. There are certain days where you expect call-outs due to religious holidays and if they are significant enough it hampers the ability to run school smoothly. This isn’t a student thing, it is a teacher/bus driver/etc problem.


There was never any evidence of operational problems on any of the new religious holidays. In fact, random other days had higher absences but that was ignored.

Bottom line, there's no operational reason for these religious holidays.


+1
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:11     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:I would prefer they fix the calendar before they fix the boundaries. I can't quite believe the sea of days off coming our way. Do they even realize how disruptive this is? Even stay at home parents recognize this isn't normal and acceptable.


They’re not gonna “fix the calendar” if they don’t see any problem with it.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 16:08     Subject: All these days off...
I would prefer they fix the calendar before they fix the boundaries. I can't quite believe the sea of days off coming our way. Do they even realize how disruptive this is? Even stay at home parents recognize this isn't normal and acceptable.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 15:01     Subject: Re:All these days off...
My HSers would rather skip these days off and get out earlier for summer but since they have zero control over the schedule, they're also happy to have to the day off and catch up on sleep/school work.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:59     Subject: Re:All these days off...
I'm mainly annoyed August isn't a vacation month anymore because of the new schedule. I don't know the solution on what vacation days to remove, but they need to find 3 days to take back to make the school year length more manageable. We get out too late and start too early.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:38     Subject: All these days off...
A neighbor who sends kids to private parochial said the more consistent schedule is worth the 15k/kid they pay, sanity wise.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:24     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.


Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.

Let the rest of us go to school.


You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.


This is the worst argument of all. It’s a federal holiday, goober
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:20     Subject: Re:All these days off...
Next year a lot of the holidays fall on weekends and we are still getting out late in June.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:01     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:it sucks for ES but is great for HSers.


My HS student slept in until 11am. The school days are pretty busy, so they’re happy whenever they get to rest.


Can't they do that on weekends? Since when is everyone such a precious snow flake
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 14:00     Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:My MS and HS kids slept in, caught up on homework, and are now enjoying some chill time outside. Their Wed-Fri at school will be more productive bc of it.


Idyllic for you