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[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]

I predict this is going to escalate in the news quickly- especially being an election year for governor.[/quote]
I wish they would have given a bit more notice. I think even having this in ArlNow would have made a big impact on public response. I was speaking to other parents at a sports practice tonight and they had no idea.[/quote]

They couldn’t though. That’s the point. Some imam sees the moon and the date of the holiday changes.  A school district can’t function based on that sort of thing.

Excused absences are fine, but you can’t shut down the district for a religious holiday that changes its date a few weeks out. Our society doesn’t function like that. You have testing dates, finals, non-refundable field trips, graduations, child care concerns, and who knows what else to consider.  [/quote]

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