The Brookline school system currently includes 5 religious holidays as Category One holidays. This essentially means there is no school on these holidays – Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah (Day 1) (note some of these holidays are included within the Winter and Spring breaks). We are advocating for the idea of adding the Lunar New Year to this list and have organized a petition in February 2018 that was signed by 125 Brookline High students. We are conducting this survey to assess the interest and support of parents/guardians in adding the Lunar New Year to this list. In particular, we would like to determine whether parents/guardians would take the day off to spend with their Asian/Asian American students if it were a Category One holiday.
Please note this survey is intended for parents/guardians of Asian/Asian American students in the Brookline Public School system. While survey results will be kept anonymous, we are asking for names to prevent inappropriate responses.