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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this going to happen every year?  Is there a range of dates where Eid may fall that is reasonably known?  I guess I don't understand how planning can be done for a district the size of APS when there is a floating holiday.[/quote]

Apparently the date shifts by weeks from year to year due to the lunar calendar.  Each particular instance can vary by a day or so because of something about the required observance is the moon a month before the actual holiday. [/quote]

APS needs to be able to say that they are very sorry but it is just too hard for a public school to accommodate that, particularly so close to the end of the school year. But they seem incapable of saying no. Of course they should provide flexibility for students and teachers who are observing the holiday - but they should not be closing school.[/quote]

Predict APS will approve it bc will say their policies require it so the next question is will they redraft policy to say they will give approx day (and not change that) or if make it floating require all APS schools to not schedule anything 3-4 days before or after in case one of those days becomes the holiday (in which case not sure how can manage that when near school end- graduations. Etc). [/quote]

they won't even go that far. once the question of redrafting the policy is asked, they'll say that they will revisit next year, kicking the can down the road. they'll vote, it'll be 5-0, and no one will speak of it again[/quote]

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