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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What obligations do people who observe Eid have to do on the day? Are they not allowed to work that day? It’s crazy to me that FCPS gives Diwali off because most festivities are in the evening and people are perfectly capable of going to work or school on Diwali. Wondering what’s required on Eid.[/quote]
Not sure but could be similar to why someone else prefers entire day off on Christmas. [/quote]

Big difference.  The date of Christmas is the same.  When did we find out about Eid date?  Within the last day or so.
Kind of short notice to change the school calendar.[/quote]
How does labeling the calendar as an O day impact you if you don't celebrate the holiday?  It literally doesn't. [/quote]

A couple years ago, FCPS cancelled AP exams on the day they expected Eid to occur.

AP exams only occur on one date per subject, worldwide.

About 3 weeks before the calender date for Eid, the same thing with the moon happened, so FCPS tried to cancel AP exams on a second date.  The original Eid date was still canceled, so we ended up with 2 AP dates cancelled for Eid.

Parents, even many muslim parents, hit the roof over that one.

There were many complaints that cancelling APs for the entire district for a purely religious holiday was FCPS forcing every high school student with APs that day to recognize and observe a religous holiday not their own.  It really was a public school endorsement of one specific religion.

The outrage was so swift and large that FCPS buckled in around a day, allowing the AP exams to go on as scheduled on the 2nd Eid day.  But they still refused to allow FCPS students to take their AP exams on the original, incorrect Eid.

While I understand the desire of muslim families to have Eid recognized in the calendar, making any schedule adjustments to the secular public school system for a holiday without set dates, where the date changes 3 weeks out, is a completely inappropriate and unfair public school endorsement of one religion over everyone else's belief systems.  In the case of the AP exam from a few years ago, and some of the 8th grade promotion parties being cancelled or rescheduled by FCPS this year at the last minute, is a completely wrong approach because it forces all the students to observe a religious holiday, in the way a set holiday date that does not change does not.[/quote]

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