Sentences with phrase «about religious holidays»

School is their to teach our kids and get them ready for the real world who cares about religious holidays.

Not exact matches

x / mas is about Santa, Reindeer, gifts, lights, decorations, party's... not a religious holiday for me.

Trump's promise that «everyone will say Merry Christmas» when he's president appeals to those who think being wished «happy holidays» by a store clerk is a form of religious oppression (and who apparently remain unconcerned about how Trump's mandate will be enforced upon those of other faiths).

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

OR How about the teachers schedule their exams around religious holidays and the students are then allowed to skip attending school during their identified religion?

So Muslims want days off from school for their religious holidays???, when the moderate Muslims start to profess their outrage at the radical Muslims then we'll think about it.

Let's all attend all the possible religious holidays that we can came up with and forget all about school, does it really matter?

Here's a thought — so long as schools are «public», e.g. run by the government, which is supposed to NOT favor any religion, how about we not have ANY religious holidays.

Guides were published about how to treat religious holidays in the schools, how to teach students about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including religious clubs on campus.

What about hindu, jewish and any other religious holiday...?

If we took every holiday for every religious group in America and gave time of for each one it would make ths school and work year about ten days a year.

What about not school closing for ANY religious holiday?

most of the holidays we get soooo excited about are religious holidays that have been so perverted by society it is saddening.

About a third of Americans (36 %) who identified as evangelical said they sometimes drank alcohol, with adults who attend church once a week or more less likely to drink at all (38 %) than those who attend once or twice a month (53 %), only on religious holidays (55 %), or rarely (59 %).

But a with BS - NN struggling for ratings, I'm sure they'll say Jesus was a black alien from Sirius, but they won't say jack about other religious figures whose holidays are also happening around this time of the year.

The fact is that holiday was never intended as a religious holiday, it was more about community and family.

Thanksgiving was never a religious holiday, its about community.

I actually don't have any current plans for this Sunday (although I will admit that since I'm not particularly religious the holiday is more about Easter egg hunts and Reeses chocolate eggs to me...) but I think my roommates and I might make a nice dinner for us to eat together.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about whether the dredging of the Hudson River is over and a local town that is taking down all of its religious holiday signs.

On Buddhist religious holidays, he found that the ritual burning of incense, tree limbs, herbs and huge piles of leaves emitted about 80 percent of the city's aerosol pollution, including a large amount of carcinogens.

Focus on what the holidays signify to you For some, the holidays are about time spent with family; for others, religious observance is key.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of May 2015, about 626,750 substitute teachers are hired annually to cover days when regular teachers are sick, at the dentist, observing a religious holiday, dealing with a family emergency, or attending professional development.

By learning about the difficulties schools face with religious holidays, the types of literature your children are reading, and how bullying affects kids in the electronic age, parents can help their children understand and comprehend the effects that prejudices have on their behavior.

During the school year look for opportunities to connect with those teachers and give them encouraging information about how they can address religious holidays, their students» religious liberties, and helpful articles from the Gateways to Better Education website.

Whether we were caught out by religious holidays or tired of walking in the desert heat, we always set about finding somewhere to eat and drink.

If the answer is that «holiday party» is inclusive by nature and therefore one can not claim a religious reason not to attend, what about a member of a religion that does not observe a winter holiday at all, like Jehovah's Witnesses or Muslims?

Easter is just about upon us, and on such an odd day too, but aside from the religious aspect of the holiday we tend to focus more on the side that the candy and entertainment industries have...