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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is a religious holiday part of the LCPS public school calendar? Had no idea you all became extremists out there and forgot about separation of church and state.[/quote]

I don’t think you know what separation of church and state means.[/quote]

Really? So throwing in religious holidays, that have no secular purpose, into a public school is not state sanctioned religion? Christmas is not a religious holiday on the school calendar, it's winter break and has a secular purpose - it's a federal holiday and many non-Christians celebrate it as a secular holiday. Eid only benefits followers of a specific religion.[/quote]

Same with Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur, and Diwali, now all on the calendar as well. All in the name of equity and wokeness. [/quote]

There's no reason time off from school needs to align with any holiday.

Other countries do not get the time off that kids in the US get. It's why American kids are so ignorant and ill prepared for life. [/quote]

Well, I have friends in India, & they get a relatively long break for Diwali AND for Christmas. 
Practically speaking, if a large percentage of students/staff are likely to be absent, make that a day off. I don’t care if the holiday is Jewish, Muslim, Christian, etc. We are in APS. If they had taken a poll & found that, say, 20% of people will skip school for X holiday, by all means, make that a school holiday. They did not do so, & I suspect the number of people who would miss school for most of these holidays is very small. Also, I’m a Christian who doesn’t care if spring break is linked to Easter. And Christmas is a federal holiday, & yes many people would skip school for Christmas even if that bothers you. [/quote]
I work in south Arlington and the number of students and staff out for Eid each year is quite high. [/quote]

I work in APs and was horrified when one of my students asked last spring if she could make up the SOL because she would be celebrating Eid that day

It should be a holiday. There are over a billion people worldwide who celebrate, and plenty in this area. I don’t really care that the day off was moved, and yes, I do have school-age kids of my own. [/quote]

Why were you horrified? That’s a bit of a overreaction. I’m also a teacher and know that we can’t possibly avoid giving tests on every single holiday, since we have so many students here from all over the world. I would have found out the alternate date and reassured the child.  As teachers, we do things like this all of the time. [/quote]

Because given the number of Muslim students I teach, an end-of-year test shouldn’t have been scheduled on Eid. It shouldn’t fall on the student (who was relatively young in this case) to point out that it had been. And yes, of course I got her the makeup information.

I agree we can’t avoid giving tests on every holiday. This wasn’t a unit test scheduled for a minor holiday. It was an end-of-year test, and those shouldn’t be scheduled on major religious holidays.

Overreaction? Maybe, maybe not. The student shouldn’t have been put in this position.

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There are private religious schools for extremists like you. If students want to observe a religious day they can call in absent and reschedule whatever they need to do. A public school should not be deciding what are major religious holidays and which ones to observe over others.

Also, religion is completely optional. It's not an immutable characteristic like race, skin color, etc so does not need to be put into the "equity and diversity" bin.[/quote]

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