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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now Memorial Day off and then they did teacher workday and then Wed off for Eid Al Adha. So next year if moves later instead of earlier and APS adds a day (as superintendent wanted to do this time originally as a no discussion item) will only have school Friday.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2024/01/2025-26-SCHOOL-YEAR-CALENDAR-FINAL.pdf[/quote]
I think this is a good time to advocate for them to revise the pip. I’d like the religious holidays to go away completely (federal holidays only) because we can’t accommodate everyone and it’s already disruptive to the flow of the calendar and shortens  summer vacation. That’s probably an unlikely goal but it’s  reasonable to say  your holiday doesn’t have a set date two years in advance sorry it doesn’t get included.[/quote]

I want them to devise it at well.  APS wants to be everything for everyone and it’s not practical.  
This will happen again.    Maybe doable with more foresight (they will block off 6 days going forward) but it seems the demands are just increasing. [/quote]

It’s how they could address the bus driver last night to so humbly asked for just a day that is not currently on calendar to go to church for his religion [/quote]
The Ethiopian/Eritrean staff and student population has been large at every school I have worked in or sent my kids to. I’d like to know why Islam is getting more preference over them.[/quote]

What do you mean?   Part of why Islam is getting a preference one would think (other than that it is one of the world’s major religions)  is the fact we have had a very, very large influx of families recently from this exact region - who are Muslim, and often very devout - in fact all Muslims at the schools we know who veil their young girls are from that region.  This region encompasses Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and some contested areas.  [/quote]

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