NAME of Teacher
or Principle
NAME of School
ADDRESS of
School
TOWN, STATE of
School

Dear Sir: [or
Madame – preferably use last name with Mr./Mrs./Ms.]

I wish to thank you for the excellent education my
[child/children, INSERT NAME(s)] are receiving at your school. The quality of learning they are receiving
will prepare them well for the future.

Our family has recently become aware that the Bible
historically used a method of time-keeping different from the modern civil
calendar, the Gregorian. As a Christian
family, we have studied this topic exhaustively because of the impact upon our
jobs as well as the children’s schooling.
Nevertheless, we now feel it is our duty to observe the Biblical holy
days. These include the weekly
seventh-day Sabbaths, the monthly New Moons and four other annual religiously
observed holy days.

This calendar impacts work and school because the
months on the Biblical calendar begin with the New Moon. This also restarts the weekly cycle, so the
“seventh-day” by this calendar appears to float through the continuous weekly
cycle of the civil, Gregorian calendar that the school is using.

Much of the time (although not always) this would
require the children to miss one day of school a week. We can furnish you with a calendar listing of
the days the children would be absent.
It would be our responsibility to obtain from the teachers the homework
assignments they would miss and I can assure you that we would make sure the
children spent compensatory time with their schoolwork at home.

We appreciate the fact that in business as well as
government accommodation for religious differences has been provided. We ask that this same accommodation be
extended for our children. We will do
everything we can to minimize the impact of this accommodation on the school
and the teachers and still continue the children’s education.

I sincerely hope that allowance can be made for my
children. The education they are
receiving from your school is a blessing for which we are grateful.

Sincerely yours,

[SIGN NAME HERE]
[TYPE NAME HERE]