All things Easter, Spring Solstice, Passover, or Ostara

[CellarDweller]

When I was a kid, we got both as holidays from school--and that was public school.

I think some kids may get the Monday after Easter if they have spring break at that time.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, so we would get a half day on Thursday, but back to school on Monday.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I was a kid at around the same time, but I don't think we got those other days off. Must have depended on the community, I guess? I've always thought it slightly weird that Christmas is a federal holiday. I guess there'd be too much outcry if it weren't.

"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December."--Ebenezer Scrooge

[Sason]

We sure got them all off in Catholic school.

I often tease Sonja, because Sweden is such a secular country; yet, they get all the Catholic holidays off!

True!

But then, Christianity was a major defining power in society for around 1000 years.

The church had a major impact on every aspect of society, government, people's lives, laws...everything.

The church was formally separated from the state only 26 years ago. Although its power had diminished considerably over the last, say, 100 years, it was only then that the legal divorce between them took place.