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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jew in NOVA here whose kids aren't off for the Jewish holidays. We pull them out but have no issue with it. Muslim observers should do the same. [/quote]

But in MCPS, which is the school system under discussion, the kids are off for the Jewish holidays, as well as the Christian ones.[/quote]

If MCPS closes for Christian and Jewish holidays, which it does, this request by the Muslim community seems fair to me.[/quote]

That doesn't even follow logically. How is it fair? [/quote]

What don't you understand? (This question is only 20% snarky). [/quote]

I don't understand why you equate fairness with equity. Do you normally do this? Because I spend an awful lot of time explaining to my children how fairness and equity are not the same concepts. It wouldn't be fair, for example, for everyone to pay the same tax rate. That might be "equal" but it's not fair.

So, again, explain how it follows, logically, that because large pluralities of a religious population are accomodated by the public school schedule that the same courtesy should be extended to followers of a faith that number fractionally, relatively speaking?

And there is zero snark in my response. That you felt the need to snark at all says a lot about you, none of it positive.[/quote]

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