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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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Speaking of the Jewish holidays, I had a little bit of a whoops moment yesterday. My older son's (OS) preschool follows the local public school's calendar. I had heard friends discuss plans for what to do during Rosh Hashanah since their children had the day(s) off and they don't celebrate it. In fact I remember that when growing up we had both days off from school. Thus, when I was invited to take my kids to the zoo with a couple other friends and their children, I happily agreed.

The kids had a wonderful time. OS in particular was excited to be included on a fun outing since he's convinced that his little brother has all the fun while he's at school. The zoo was fairly crowded. You can imagine my surprise then when I checked the on-line preschool calendar to find out if OS's school gave both days or only the first day off. I found out that not only did he not have the second day of Rosh Hashanah off, but in fact he was not supposed to have the first day off. Whoops!

It's preschool. It's not like he missed his SATs or anything. However due to a cold I've had since Friday that seemed to be getting worse instead of better, I went to lie down while the Big Giraffe, who does take both days of Rosh Hashanah off to observe the holiday, took both boys and dropped OS off at preschool. He got to explain why OS wasn't in school yesterday. The teacher thought it sounded reasonable.

OS had a fun day, the Big Giraffe got to do the explaining, and I woke up feeling much better.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Just because some members of your family take certain religious holidays off does not mean that schools will close for other members of your family.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 7:47 PM   2 comments
2 Comments:

  • At 10/01/2008 10:31 PM, Blogger Heather said…

    I think every kid should get to miss school to have fun with his or her family at least once every year.

     

  • At 10/01/2008 11:40 PM, Blogger Ted and/or Laura said…

    That is totally something I would do. My school actually has Weds and Thurs off next week, which is sorta strange since it's a non religious private law school and it doesn't take any of the other Jewish holidays off. But I refuse to complain any time someone wants to give me time off.

     
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