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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
That's a very reasonable take "for holidays where the exact date is not known at least a year in advance we offer an excused absence or floating holiday.[/quote]

Looks like they needed to have said that in their policy but they didn’t so guessing they fear lawsuits if don’t give holiday now and weighing that against people just mad but the mad people won’t have grounds to sue. Guessing, but the first speaker was quick to call out “required.” To be able to not give to entire school, APS needed to have better written how they would handle religious holidays.[/quote]
Best way to avoid lawsuits is to get out of the religious holiday game. Say that we follow the federal government, put it on them. Make it the PIP -APS follows federal holidays. Staff get two Floating holidays. Students get excused absences. [/quote]

This.  Bus driver should sue. Why are Muslim holidays celebrated but not orthodox? [/quote]

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