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Weird, I don't remember ever having class on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Easter. Funny how it's only an actionable offense worthy of litigation when it's i

Weird, I don't remember ever having class on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Easter. Funny how it's only an actionable offense worthy of litigation when it's in support of non-Christian religions. I'm not surprised. Maybe if they called it "Midsemester Break", the way the others are called Winter Break and Spring Break, it would be passable.

josephcsible 4y ago
You didn't have class on Easter because it's not on a weekday. And the only reason you got off for Christmas is because of the secular side of it. Consider that you didn't get days off for Ascension Thursday or the Immaculate Conception, purely Christian religious holidays with no secular side.
- IceMetalPunk 4y ago
  Easter is not on a weekday, but the entire week we got off for "Spring Break". Which, not coincidentally, overlaps with Easter. Unless you can think of another reason that week specifically should be free of schooling? The secular side of Christmas? Maybe in Europe, but here in the US, Christmas is still a very religious holiday. To the point where saying "happy holidays" to more than 10 strangers in December will likely be met with at least one "It's Merry Christmas" from a Christian who feels oppressed. Speaking as someone from a Jewish family who worked in customer service for many years, Christmas had no secular aspects; we could easily have called it "Movie Day" in my family and it would be accurate. You're right that we don't get the smaller Christian holidays off. I'm not saying "we get all Christian holidays off", I'm saying "the only religious holidays we get off are Christian". Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    > the entire week we got off for "Spring Break". Which, not coincidentally, overlaps with Easter. At my school, spring break was always in late March no matter when Easter was. > "the only religious holidays we get off are Christian". While that happens to be true, it's not because Christianity gets any special treatment. It's because the only religious holidays we get off are the ones that have been secularized and commercialized, and the only religious holidays that that's happened to are Christian ones. We don't get any religious holidays off just because of the religious aspect (and we shouldn't, because that would be a giant First Amendment violation).

josephcsible 4y ago

You didn't have class on Easter because it's not on a weekday. And the only reason you got off for Christmas is because of the secular side of it. Consider that you didn't get days off for Ascension Thursday or the Immaculate Conception, purely Christian religious holidays with no secular side.

IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Easter is not on a weekday, but the entire week we got off for "Spring Break". Which, not coincidentally, overlaps with Easter. Unless you can think of another reason that week specifically should be free of schooling? The secular side of Christmas? Maybe in Europe, but here in the US, Christmas is still a very religious holiday. To the point where saying "happy holidays" to more than 10 strangers in December will likely be met with at least one "It's Merry Christmas" from a Christian who feels oppressed. Speaking as someone from a Jewish family who worked in customer service for many years, Christmas had no secular aspects; we could easily have called it "Movie Day" in my family and it would be accurate. You're right that we don't get the smaller Christian holidays off. I'm not saying "we get all Christian holidays off", I'm saying "the only religious holidays we get off are Christian". Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  > the entire week we got off for "Spring Break". Which, not coincidentally, overlaps with Easter. At my school, spring break was always in late March no matter when Easter was. > "the only religious holidays we get off are Christian". While that happens to be true, it's not because Christianity gets any special treatment. It's because the only religious holidays we get off are the ones that have been secularized and commercialized, and the only religious holidays that that's happened to are Christian ones. We don't get any religious holidays off just because of the religious aspect (and we shouldn't, because that would be a giant First Amendment violation).