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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish MCPS would publish stats instead of saying "large numbers".  Just be transparent.  If say 40% of the MCPS population is out on a religious day and 20% of the teachers have called in for subs--- is that high?  Is it 20% students out and 5% of teachers?

The Muslim community is asking for their holidays to be recognized just as the judeo- Christian ones are.  MCPSs argument is that there are not enough absentee people to warrant that.  That's a fine answer, but at what number would it be warranted?[/quote]

Today's Washington Post said that in 2013, 5.6% of students and 5% of teachers were absent on Eid al-Adha, which is only slightly higher than a comparable day the previous week.  But it doesn't say how high the numbers were for the Jewish holidays before they were added to the calendar in the 1970s.

This change makes sense to me -- the effect is the same, and there really isn't a reason why the school system should be acknowledging certain religious holidays and not others.  [/quote]

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