It's a War on Christmas, Charlie Brown

New Year's Day is not a religious holiday. There is no reason for schools cannot close in observance of that holiday.

Now show us a public school that calls the time off in December Christmas Break. Or just admit you are wrong. (Or more likely, disappear or change the subject since we know you are incapable of admitting when you are wrong.)

 

Tony doubling and tripling down, even after several people have said there is a fall break, is really some of his best work.

 

Don't New Orleans public schools close down for Mardis Gras?

 

I don't know, but would anybody really want to copy anything done by schools in Louisiana?

 

Massachusetts schools have a break the week of Presidents' Day, which if you don't ski and/or have lots of money is one big pain in the ass, and it has at times fallen on Mardi Gras. It's as good a reason to let the little rascals out as any other.
PS: In my town, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanhah are school days off because absenteeism among students and faculty was so high it wasn't worth having school. When those holidays are on Friday, many Mass. schools have football games the preceding Thursday. It's no big thing. Objecting to the Biblical Christmas story in a Christmas play is stupid, very, very stupid. Taking the heat because some school administrators were idiots is no better.

 

Yes. It's a state holiday. All schools in Louisiana, not just New Orleans, are closed. I believe schools are also closed for Lundi Gras (the day before Mardis Gras) since it wouldn't make much sense to come back from the weekend, go to class on Monday, take off on Tuesday and then back again for a short week starting Wednesday.

 

Same for coastal Alabama. And my son's system in suburban Birmingham has ... wait for it ... fall break.

 

What a surprise. Tony hates children, too.

Why can't they just get factory jobs and start paying taxes?

 

For many, perhaps most, systems (e.g. all of Florida), winter breaks bisect the school year and fall between semesters. School begins around August 10-15, ends around Memorial Day.

 

When i was in high school the first day of deer season was a day off.

Mostly because the faculty and students would have been mostly absent anyway.

Now it is just rolled into, wait for it, fall break.

Back in the day and in farm country, fall break was a longer and bigger deal. It was either four or six weeks and was tied to the harvest.

Those schools didn't have football either since it was usually all of September and some of October but it would roll around depending on why's the farmers needed.

 

It's not stupid at all. It's a public damn school. Christmas is basically a secular holiday with religious roots, and it is therefore permissibly a federal holiday. But it is perfectly reasonable to challenge whether some kid can pontificate as Linus in the school play.

 

It is not really a secular holiday, not to the people who practice other faiths and do not celebrate it.