Religious Holidays in Public Schools

Soon · 07-20-2010, 01:44 PM

Ender,

Great post.

Not only does Canada (well, at least Ontario) have Good Friday off in schools (and is named as such) but Easter Monday as well.

Most of the students where I am at refer to it as Christmas (not Winter) Break/Holidays/Vacation--maybe it's a regional thing.

And I concur with you about students just taking their own time off as needed for other faith based days. I have never heard of any student being penalized for missing day(s) due to Ramadan etc. (we have a fairly high Muslim population where I live).

I'm with you about breaks not being reduced...I still miss the three months on/two weeks off system in Australia. (with longer for summer holidays)

View Poll Results: what do you think about adding holidays to school calendars?
I think we need to be more inclusive and add other religious holidays	39	41.49%
I think we need to pare it down, we have too many	11	11.70%
I think we need to take all religious holidays out of public school calendars	27	28.72%
I don't care	17	18.09%
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Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Ender, Great post. Not only does Canada (well, at least Ontario) have Good Friday off in schools (and is named as such) but Easter Monday as well. Most of the students where I am at refer to it as Christmas (not Winter) Break/Holidays/Vacation--maybe it's a regional thing. And I concur with you about students just taking their own time off as needed for other faith based days. I have never heard of any student being penalized for missing day(s) due to Ramadan etc. (we have a fairly high Muslim population where I live). I'm with you about breaks not being reduced...I still miss the three months on/two weeks off system in Australia. (with longer for summer holidays) Last edited by Soon; 07-20-2010 at 01:47 PM.