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Homework over spring break (long)
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dragonlady wrote: This is made more challenging by the fact that the holidays move around on the secular calendar. It's quite easy for even most Jews to miss the fact that a certain secular date is going to wind up conflicting with a major holiday more than a few weeks before the date. When you live in an area that is seriously multi-ethnic and multi-religious, things get interesting. I try to have all of the major Jewish, Christian and Islamic holidays on my Palm Pilot, but somehow a bunch got dropped off when I bought a new one. Well, you're doing better than I am, then. Although I do have a Jewish calendar at home, of course, and do have access to the information on the internet, it is not uncommon to hear things like "When is Rosh Hashanah this year?" uttered in our home and in our religious community. We all have the wherewithall to find out, but we don't always have the information at hand. I put the holidays into my Palm only sporadically, and not usually more than a few months ahead of time. I believe there is freeware/shareware out there to help out with this, but I haven't gotten around to downloading any. (Partly because I have to use a custom conduit to sync my datebook to my employer's calendar/meeting system, and am afraid to mess with it.) I myself made an appointment for my son during Passover, even when I knew exactly when it was. I was trying to fit it into all of our usual weekday scheduling insanity, and totally forgot about Passover for a moment. I did realize about 15 minutes later and called back and changed it, but I have to agree with you that something like this could easily be no more than an unintentional slip-up. I agree, that in an ideal world, teachers with Jewish students in their classes should make sure to be sensitive and find out from the families what special needs/restrictions will arise from their religion, but I don't think we can expect or even want teachers to try to figure this out on their own when observances vary from family to family. No major tests on Yom Kippur is probably a pretty universally good idea where there are Jewish families. Expecting a teacher to realize in advance that, for example, internet usage would be a problem for observant Jewish families on the last two days of Passover might asking a bit much. Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01) -- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt |
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