Good Friday not a Catholic Holy Day its secular

[mgirling]

TAMPA - – After weeks of delay and debate, the Hillsborough County School Board approved a 2006-07 calendar minus holidays for Yom Kippur, Good Friday or the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Fitr.

The 6-1 vote represents a major shift from scheduling days off on religious holidays, a practice School Board Attorney Tom Gonzalez on Tuesday said was wrong.

“A school board cannot recognize a religious holiday for the sole purpose of recognizing a religious holiday,” Gonzalez said at a meeting packed with dozens of members of the Muslim community, some pleading to have no school on holidays for all religions.

Only board member Jennifer Faliero voted against the new calendar, saying she checked with other lawyers and believes Good Friday is a secular holiday: “It is now about the Easter Bunny. … They have taken religion out of it completely.”

 

[Della]

Only board member Jennifer Faliero voted against the new calendar, saying she checked with other lawyers and believes Good Friday is a secular holiday: “It is now about the Easter Bunny. … They have taken religion out of it completely.”

The Easter Bunny on Good Friday? Is she kidding? Just how ignorant can she be? And this is the kind of person we have serving on a school board? God help us!!!

 

[axolotl]

Not according to this article:

sptimes.com/2005/10/13/Tampabay/School_time_off_may_g.shtml

A different calendar, which would give students a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr instead of the Monday after Easter, also will be presented at the public hearing.

That is the one favored by board member Jennifer Faliero, who told her colleagues the more secular version “waters down our values” by suppressing religious expression.

Faliero said the board should not only give students the holidays off, it should also call them what they are instead of the generic “nonstudent days.”

"It's being politically correct," she said. "It just doesn't make sense."

 

[axolotl]

Her colleagues disagreed. They said the proposed calendar is more fair because it more clearly separates church and state and may thwart future requests from other religious groups.

It has nothing to do with Church and State, it has to do with being sensitive to the students and their families. Fine. Have Good Friday be a school day. I hope every single Christian family keeps their kid home from school that day to tend to devotions. What good is having school in session if 90% of the kids will be out.

There is a city near me that at least according to the 1990 census was 90% Jewish. Of course the school calendar reflected that. It’s not establishing religion, it’s accomaditing the citizens.

The Mormon’s have weekly family nights. It’s not establishing religion to not assign homework. It’s paying attention to the needs of the community.

If the Muslim (or any other rleigious group) reached a certain persentage of the population (so that the absenteesim would be significant) go ahead, add their major day to the school calendar. Extend the school year by a day.

 

[YinYangMom]

When I was working in the securities industry I asked why Good Friday was one of the rare days the U.S. stock market closed…

the answer had to do with “Black Friday”…something about the stock market crash or whatever? I didn’t get the specifics but found it rather interesting that the secular world found a way to justify shutting down the stock market without crossing the line into religion.

I still think the money men are afraid of jinxing the market by trading on the day of Jesus’ death but won’t come out and say that.

 

[mgirling]

axolotl:

Not according to this article:

sptimes.com/2005/10/13/Tampabay/School_time_off_may_g.shtml

sptimes.com/2005/10/13/T…off_may_g.shtml

“Not according to this article” above … is Oct 13 2005. The article posted Good Friday not a Catholic… is Todays Tampa Trib. 10-27-05 I guess she changed her mind

 

[Roman_Army]

**Gee, they might as well invent a new calendar. After all, don’t we follow the Gregorian Calendar? Hmmm… doesn’t that have to do with religion, more specifically our religion? **

 

[ProudArmyWife]

Without reading the article…

I’m sure the school board secured the sacred Spring Break, though (which was invented during the 70’s to close school during the coldest time of the year to conserve energy). Is that how they chose the dates for their spring break? If not, what community needs are they looking at?

 

[mgirling]

ProudArmyWife:

Without reading the article…

I’m sure the school board secured the sacred Spring Break, though (which was invented during the 70’s to close school during the coldest time of the year to conserve energy). Is that how they chose the dates for their spring break? If not, what community needs are they looking at?

I would like to believe that… but in TAMPA FL??? maybe but prob. not… We had Christmas and Easter off in the north in the 60’s so I dont think this was the Carter energy saving days…

 

[vern_humphrey]

When I was Deputy Operations Officer for the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, I concluded I wanted to be a Jewish KATUSA (Korean Augmentation to the US Army.)

I’d have all the US holidays, all the Korean holidays and all the Jewish holidays. I’d never have to come to work, and they’d have to pay me overtime.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

 

[bones_IV]

This is just ludicrous! Calling having a day off on Good Friday established religion? Rolling over laughing. How idiotic can school boards, or should I say incompetant school boards be? Thank God my brother and sister go to a Catholic school. Funny, how at the root of this, is bad teaching and poor example by many priests and bishops who bare a majority of the responsibility. The Pope recently said to exclude God from public is hypocrisy. Looks like some Catholics here in America are still going about their ‘merry way.’ Easy road leads to perdition while the difficult one that is long a stony leads to heaven.

 

[wabrams]

YinYangMom:

When I was working in the securities industry I asked why Good Friday was one of the rare days the U.S. stock market closed…

the answer had to do with **“Black Friday”…**something about the stock market crash or whatever? I didn’t get the specifics but found it rather interesting that the secular world found a way to justify shutting down the stock market without crossing the line into religion.

I still think the money men are afraid of jinxing the market by trading on the day of Jesus’ death but won’t come out and say that.

Black Friday was a financial panic in 1869 re: gold.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869

The day after Thanksgiving is also referred to as Back Friday.