Originally Posted By Darkbeer Due to Rosh Hashanah, Many school districts will not require students to go to school that day (Most schools will call it something like a Teacher Instructional Day). Since the School Districts lose money due to unexcused absences, and they can't officially offer a religious day off, they just let all the students get the day off, and therefore no unexcused absences. So most school kids will have the day off, no matter what religion they are, that will leave a lot of kids available for a day in the parks.... And the worst thing, Disney won't really gear up for a busy day, but will have their normal off-season weekday staffing, which will make the park seem even busier.
Originally Posted By bean The worst thing is that the school district allow such a deceitful bussniness practices to happen. saying that the school are out for one reason when its really another and then still collect funding. Then they wonder where kids learn how to be deceitful. Thank for the information though
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^It happens all the time, a week for Thanksgiving since many parents have been taking an extended vacation. A extra week at Christmas, since many folks return to Mexico and won't return until after Three Kings Day. Pretty much, the districts are allowing the parents to make the schedule, as they tract the days of low attendance and try and figure out how to prevent it from happening in the future. So it isn't JUST religious, but when there is a major religious holiday that keeps kids home, you know the district will adjust their schedule to keep the money flowing in. So now school starts earlier and ends later (there is still a requirement of a certain amount of time and days in class, but it seems like the State government keeps approving more Teacher Instructor Days (The teachers still want to get paid) per year.
Originally Posted By fkurucz What does seem odd is that while Mexicans make up a very sizeable potion of the districts students, Jews do not. What I am trying to say is that if half your students are going to be gone anyway, it might make sense to schedule around them. But how many students will be absent because its Jewish new year?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^I guess enough to make sure and schedule a day when students are not required to attend. I presume some districts don't do it, since they don't have many "no-shows" in prior years, but if the trend is noticeable, well, then change the calendar....
Originally Posted By rockcow1 Here in Colorado, so many people take a week off in the winter to go skiing. So now they clumped a bunch of district work days together to give everyone "Ski WeeK".
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Some districts in the SF bay area do the same. It's usually the week of or the week before Presidents Day.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Here in Colorado, so many people take a week off in the winter to go skiing. So now they clumped a bunch of district work days together to give everyone "Ski WeeK". << Not in the Thompson School district: <a href="http://www.thompson.k12.co.us/NAbout/20072008calendar.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.thompson.k12.co.us/ NAbout/20072008calendar.pdf</a>
Originally Posted By jodiefra "Here in Colorado, so many people take a week off in the winter to go skiing. So now they clumped a bunch of district work days together to give everyone "Ski WeeK"." I'm in the Boulder Valley School District and we don't have "Ski Week" either... just the usual Spring Break and 2 weeks in December.
Originally Posted By ImNotAllThereMyself >>>The worst thing is that the school district allow such a deceitful bussniness practices to happen. saying that the school are out for one reason when its really another and then still collect funding.<<< As a teacher I can tell you thatteacher inservice days are exactly that, I have to be in for service. We are usually doing various continued education classes seminars or just staff meetings. Believe me this works best for everyone, there are trainings that I am REQUIRED to attend per my credential and if I can schedule them to coincide with an inservice day then the students are not stuck with a substitute for a day. Which means they are getting a better education. Besides in response to the Mexicans versus Jews debate, would you rather there was no religious holidays off? No Christmas, No Easter (allbeit Winter break and Spring Break) You can't give a "holiday" for one religion and not allow it for others. Cheshire Cat
