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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Taking another day off in September makes no sense[/b], 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]

Of course it makes sense! That's when Eid al-Adha is in 2016. What wouldn't make sense is taking a day off in December or April for a holiday that's in September.[/quote]

The BOE has a stated policy of not closing on religious holidays. It doesn't matter when the holiday falls when there are so few celebrators in this county. If I lived in Dearborn, MI-where about 60% of the population celebrates the holiday-it would make sense. Here, no. This is BOE political correctness run amuk as usual.[/quote]

lol right. that's why we're closed on Rosh Hoshanah, Yom Kippur, Christmas, and Easter.[/quote]

No, we're closed on those days because large segments of the population celebrate them. Jewish schools have more time off around the major Jewish holidays than MCPS BTW.[/quote]

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