No one should take off from school simply because it is that student’s birthday. BUT – having said that – if the teacher is aware of the brithday, ti would be nice to take five minutes to mark the day for that child and give the child some special thing to do (age appropriately, of course), i.e., be the monitor, or chazzan/chazzanit for davening, get to erase and wash the blackboard (always was my favorite thing), and so forth. The class can sing happy birthday. What’s the big deal. if it is a teen, you wish them a happy birthday and gamarnu.
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