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To: Elroy who wrote (353598)	10/5/2007 12:39:35 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578127

Did the Jewish kids just stay home from school with their parent's permission, or did the school give them the "day off"? It's one thing for the parents to keep their kids out of school - Muslims can do that as well on Muslim holidays, if the think celebrating the Islamic holiday is more important than that day of education - and its another to have the school sanction it (ie, would probably necessitate teaching nothing really new that day). If the determinant is nothing new was taught during their absense, then the school did not sanction it. We were taught new things and the Jewish kids were expected to make it up. However, there was never any criticism leveled at them for taking the day off. It was understood that it was a normal part of the school year. By the time, I was in high school, I never even thought about it. It was what it was.