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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, I know there are more Jewish holidays than those MCPS gets off. What's the point?

The BOE made it clear that they have no idea what criteria was used 40 years ago to give off those two holidays. They just made a decision and did it and will continue doing it because they have been doing it.[/quote]

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