It’s Not Just Muslims: Christians Play the Victim Card, Too
Phil
Why does Winter Break ALWAYS include Christmas? Winter Break doesn’t come at the end of the semester. No, Winter Break is deliberately SCHEDULED to include Christmas.
We also use to schedule our Spring Break to coincide with Easter; it was always off on Good Friday with the following week off. This year Easter came too early to do that so what happened? We still had Good Friday off. Easter and Christmas are the only two religious holidays that our district takes off. These two days are the days Christians are most likely to take off for religious reasons.
Let’s compare that to Judaism. I take off days for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah… my two most important holidays that require me to be out of school. I do not take time off for Purim, Pesach (Passover), Hannukah, Sukkot, Simach Torah or any of the other holidays. I have had Principals ask me to stay late for meetings during Hannukah so that I’ve missed the candle lighting. I’ve missed the candle lightings for Shabbat due to Principal insensitivity despite requests to leave. I’ve had meetings/activities scheduled in the evening for the first two days of Pesach.
No. Christianity is NOT being singled out for discrimination. At least you can take your two major holidays off without losing personal days.
