Reply #39: So how is this different from what happens the day before [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

(and after) a secular spring break?

Believe me, as a college teacher, I discovered that no matter how long the spring break was, one week or two weeks, there were students who "had to" leave early and come back late. I soon learned that it was smarter not to schedule tests or major content on such days, because it was more work to give make-up tests (the students always managed to finagle a dean's excuse for such occasions) or repeat the content than to just keep the tests for later. It was no big deal. I scheduled review sessions for those days and did some fun but educational activity like skits or "tasks" (I was a foreign language instructor).

And as for the poster who listed all the potential religious holidays? Fine. No student is going to celebrate ALL those holidays, and if you've really got a Zoroastrian student (of Iranian or Indian heritage) who misses the Zoroastrian holidays and a couple of Muslim students who miss the Muslim holidays, big hairy deal.

Just because you're hostile to religion doesn't mean that your preference has to prevent other people from expressing their beliefs.

To you, any expression of religious belief that is visible to you is "cramming it down your throat." Well, you may be surprised to hear this, but the majority of religious people aren't even thinking about cramming anything down your throat when they celebrate their traditoins. They're just doing what they do.

Maybe the solution is for all the atheists to get together and declare Robert Ingersoll Day or something.