FCPS schools hosting religious events?

[Anonymous]

I was Christian and my DH was Muslim. We both gave them up and became atheists but still do some things associated with those religions. No pork because that was how DH was raised, give presents on Christmas, etc. Just because we do those things doesn't make us muslim or christian, just means that we are representing how we were raised. I don't get the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

[Anonymous]

FCPS needs to tighten the separation of church and state, for all events

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Please share with us what Christmas and Hanukkah events are officially sponsored by FCPS at your child’s school.

Meanwhile, don’t worry, once your kids take World History, there are plenty of lessons that teach about all of the cultures and religions in the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Which "bigots" and which event at which school? Please be specific.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Please share with us what Christmas and Hanukkah events are officially sponsored by FCPS at your child’s school.

Meanwhile, don’t worry, once your kids take World History, there are plenty of lessons that teach about all of the cultures and religions in the world.

Christmas sing-a-long. Easter break. Christmas break. Religious songs at choir concerts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Please share with us what Christmas and Hanukkah events are officially sponsored by FCPS at your child’s school.

Meanwhile, don’t worry, once your kids take World History, there are plenty of lessons that teach about all of the cultures and religions in the world.

Christmas sing-a-long. Easter break. Christmas break. Religious songs at choir concerts.

Do you really still have those at your school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

That doesn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

You are calling people of “minority” religions bigots? Look in a mirror.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Please share with us what Christmas and Hanukkah events are officially sponsored by FCPS at your child’s school.

Meanwhile, don’t worry, once your kids take World History, there are plenty of lessons that teach about all of the cultures and religions in the world.

Christmas sing-a-long. Easter break. Christmas break. Religious songs at choir concerts.

Please do share when and how FCPS acknowledges “Christmas break” or “Easter break”. And, what do you mean by “religious songs at choir concerts”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

These bigots got the whole event canceled. Meanwhile, my kid can learn about Christmas and Hanukkah at school and that’s fine.

Please share with us what Christmas and Hanukkah events are officially sponsored by FCPS at your child’s school.

Meanwhile, don’t worry, once your kids take World History, there are plenty of lessons that teach about all of the cultures and religions in the world.

Christmas sing-a-long. Easter break. Christmas break. Religious songs at choir concerts.

There is actually multiple court precedent allowing these songs in educational settings from back when the court was liberal, starting in the 1970s.

Sacred music constitutes a significant majority of western choral and music historical tradition, and ommitting these pieces from school repetoire will deprive students from a comprehensive music education.

https://nafme.org/resource/sacred-music-in-schools/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD got the same email(she goes to Frost) and they left out the prayer information and it was sent out on 3/20. They might have got rid of the prayer because of YOU. Great job ruining an inclusive event due to your self-centered crap.

Are you okay with Frost's principal sponsoring and inviting the school to join in at the Station's of the Cross followed by Eucharistic Adoration Friday's during Lent?

Or a Paasover Dinner and prayers?

[Anonymous]

Can someone please clarify - was the Iftar dinner cancelled?

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA, amirite? God forbid we celebrate any diversity. The war on Christmas, blah blah blah. Just shut it, privileged brats.

The privileged groups are actually the ones we aren't allowed to criticize.

+1 I'm an atheist and don't want any groups inserting their religion into schools. The school where I work does not celebrate Halloween, all music is completely secular. We have stripped every custom that is vaguely related to religious custon away-except Muslim students are given space to fast and pray. Our principal sends out a Ramadan message. I have no idea how this happened other than fear. They are a large but not the largest minority population in my district.

Oh good heavens they’re given space to fast and pray?!

What’s next a moment of silence to begin the day that was campaigned for by Christians trying to back door school prayer in?


A pledge to god to begin the day?


An academic calendar built around Christian holidays?



Being an atheist doesn’t absolve you of being a bigot. You’re just blind to how much Christianity is ingratiated into our culture that you see it as “non-secular”.


Also, assuming you work at FCPS, the county is quite clear that literally any student is free to have time and space to pray.


Sincerely,

Another atheist

I don't work for FCPS. I'm actually ok with being bigoted if that means I oppose one religious group getting to do whatever they want in a public school. Maybe everyone is free to pray and fast at my school but only Muslims have been explicitly invited to do so. That's wrong.

So you’re upset you didn’t get an invite…


Something tells me this is a recurring grievance in your life.

I'm an atheist, I don't pray

And yet here you are offended on the behalf of others who were never excluded but they simply weren’t “invited”.


You might be an atheist but you’ve clearly picked a religious sect to align yourself with.

I like for all my students to be offered the same opportunities.

Is it possible… and stay with me here, that because Ramadan literally requires daily prayer and fasting for the month that it makes sense to preemptively tell students their options whereas your other students are not in that position?


Radical idea

Lent is 40 days of fasting, or at a minimum, fasting on Fridays and Ash Wednesday.

What are you talking about???

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA, amirite? God forbid we celebrate any diversity. The war on Christmas, blah blah blah. Just shut it, privileged brats.

The privileged groups are actually the ones we aren't allowed to criticize.

+1 I'm an atheist and don't want any groups inserting their religion into schools. The school where I work does not celebrate Halloween, all music is completely secular. We have stripped every custom that is vaguely related to religious custon away-except Muslim students are given space to fast and pray. Our principal sends out a Ramadan message. I have no idea how this happened other than fear. They are a large but not the largest minority population in my district.

Oh good heavens they’re given space to fast and pray?!

What’s next a moment of silence to begin the day that was campaigned for by Christians trying to back door school prayer in?


A pledge to god to begin the day?


An academic calendar built around Christian holidays?



Being an atheist doesn’t absolve you of being a bigot. You’re just blind to how much Christianity is ingratiated into our culture that you see it as “non-secular”.


Also, assuming you work at FCPS, the county is quite clear that literally any student is free to have time and space to pray.


Sincerely,

Another atheist

I don't work for FCPS. I'm actually ok with being bigoted if that means I oppose one religious group getting to do whatever they want in a public school. Maybe everyone is free to pray and fast at my school but only Muslims have been explicitly invited to do so. That's wrong.

So you’re upset you didn’t get an invite…


Something tells me this is a recurring grievance in your life.

I'm an atheist, I don't pray

And yet here you are offended on the behalf of others who were never excluded but they simply weren’t “invited”.


You might be an atheist but you’ve clearly picked a religious sect to align yourself with.

I like for all my students to be offered the same opportunities.

Is it possible… and stay with me here, that because Ramadan literally requires daily prayer and fasting for the month that it makes sense to preemptively tell students their options whereas your other students are not in that position?


Radical idea

Lent is 40 days of fasting, or at a minimum, fasting on Fridays and Ash Wednesday.

Correct. However, FCPS often make accommodations for students who are fasting, including providing access to prayer rooms and Meal kits. Per West Potomac HS website:
Ramadan Meal Kits
FCPS is offering fasting meal kits for students who are fasting for Ramadan (February 28-March 28, 2025).  Please see this page for more information and to request the meal kits. 

It appears that no other faith represented in FCPS requests such accommodations for religious reasons, nor are they announced by FCPS if they were.

Radical practice.

Was this for the free lunch kids?

It’s for everyone:
https://www.fcps.edu/services/families-and-caregivers/food-and-nutrition

The point is not who pays for the meals, or who uses the prayer rooms. The issue is that FCPS is officially involved in accommodating for religious practices of one faith (Muslim).

To the PP: Not a radical idea. A radical practice.

Exactly. This should be offered to all students who may be fasting or none. It’s an exclusionary practice

The Catholic Church exempts children from fasting during lent. It is for 18+ and you know it.