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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing to me that closing for one group's religious holiday results in such a significant change to the calendar, particularly given that it appears the Muslim population in Montgomery County is only a bit over 1% of the total population. [/quote]

I don't think that Eid al-Adha has any magic calendar-disrupting properties. Unless you think that, if the BoE had added a different day to the calendar that was not a Muslim holiday, all would have gone smoothly?[/quote]

Taking another day off in September makes no sense, and it's being done specifically to cater to a tiny segment of the population. What part of that are you having difficulty understanding?[/quote]

But starting school on a Friday is clearly not the only solution. They've come up with something pretty annoying that's making people resent the holiday rather than the actual issue (kind of like how people blamed the removal of all the holidays on the Muslim request for inclusion last year).[/quote]

Bowers has to make the school closure useful since the BOE decided to operate in direct opposition with its policy of NOT CLOSING ON RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS.[/quote]

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