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I wonder if you see the absurdity of your post....
This same group got the Catholic and Jewish holidays removed from the school calendar.
But now they want their religious holidays ON the school calendar.
And you think my post is absurd ?
Do you think Islam is the only one true religion ?
IMHO NO religion belongs in the public school system..NOTHING.
No holidays, no special prayer rooms, no religious clubs.
That's what religious school is for. That is what church groups is for.
And on such daysa majority of the class would be missing.It would be pointless for the teacher to create a whole day's lesson for two or three students. Its better to just be off the days when a majority of the school will be gone.
Please show where a majority of the school would be absent.
Please show where a majority of the school would be absent.
It would depend on the holiday.
Someone mentioned having the Monday after Thanksgiving off for deer (antlered) season. Historically that was the first day of the season in PA (where the poster is from) so school systems would have the day off since few kids would show up in most of the state's schools systems.
Years ago the 2 day doe season was two weeks after that but weren't days off. Again, most schools had an absentee rate over 50% that day among both students and staff. Many school systems finally had school out that Monday.
When I was in college classes ran through the day before Thanksgiving. Very sparse attendance that day. My school system (where I taught) in MD finally started having that as a day off, as well as Christmas Eve, because it wasn't worth even unlocking the doors those days because of absenteeism.
I actually think that we should only recognize Christmas and Easter as set US holidays in public schools.
We should not recognize any Muslim, Jewish or any other religious holidays at all. However, if those students who happened to be Muslims or Jews or whatever...they can have the day off. Kind of like a PTO.
This same group got the Catholic and Jewish holidays removed from the school calendar.
But now they want their religious holidays ON the school calendar.
And you think my post is absurd ?
Do you think Islam is the only one true religion ?
IMHO NO religion belongs in the public school system..NOTHING.
No holidays, no special prayer rooms, no religious clubs.
That's what religious school is for. That is what church groups is for.
The absurdity is the exact same thing can be said about members of the Christian "group":
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Figures...only their religion is the one true religion.
Complain about other religions and then demand that your religion be honored.
i agree with you re religion in the public schools.
school should be 5.5 days a week for 52 weeks...total 286 days a year....
school day is from 8:30-5...get them used to a standard work day
give the kids 20 personal days, and 2-4 weeks of vaca that can be scheduled to their (or their parents) convenience
for example they use a personal day on good Friday if it is to their NEED
this way maybe, just maybe we will catch up to the rest of the world
In addition to the fact that kids are not just little adults (re: the 8 hour school day), it would be hard to get much teaching done with kids missing random days.
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