You are not forced to eat Mcdolands or celebrate christmas. Your kid can stay home those days.
The problem is you think your personal choices are requried to be paid by the government. Other gropups could make the same annoucement and the taxpayers would be on the hook for everyone cutural choices and legally Halacha has no priority over any other choice. We do not live in halacha state, we live in a secular non-jewish country and must follow those laws