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HashtagDadWatts t1_it7h9o5 wrote

Reply to comment by jay5627 in Mayor Adams says NYC schools to add Diwali holiday to calendar by elizabeth-cooper

Schools were closed for Yom Kippur, and will be closed for Passover, Good Friday and Eid al-Fitr later this year.

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jay5627 t1_it7i44x wrote

Ok? I wasn't saying not to give off for holidays. I was saying they shouldn't pick and choose which ones

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Double-Ad4986 t1_it7oe0k wrote

you aren't saying anything at all really. they ARE giving off for special holidays for all religions—of course they pick special ones or they wouldn't meet the minimum required in-school days....

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elizabeth-cooper OP t1_it7iu8l wrote

Yeah, no Eastern Orthodox Christmas? No St. Patrick's Day? What a bunch of racists.

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bigdirty702 t1_it7pa3k wrote

St Patrick’s isn’t a real holiday.. they have no idea over there wtf we are celebrating on that day. Also it’s about student populations. The south Asian population is quite large in the north east. Cities up and down the east coast close schools for Diwali. No point keeping a school open if there aren’t any students. Diwali is celebrated by billions worldwide..

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jay5627 t1_it7jj8f wrote

I never called anyone a racist but I appreciate you putting words in my mouth.

> “It is long overdue to say to our Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist students and communities that we see you, we acknowledge you,”

This is a good thing. They should acknowledge/celebrate other holidays as well. So, the opposite of racist?

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elizabeth-cooper OP t1_it7jxjv wrote

I'm pretty sure Russian and Irish are not races, so perhaps I was being sarcastic to indicate that there are a number of groups that don't have a specific holiday off and if they gave off for every holiday that existed, there would be no school ever.

They're not even adding Diwali to the calendar, they're swapping it out for an existing holiday.

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