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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They would have, but it's too late. It's true that they shouldn't but the would have if they'd known earlier.[/quote]

I don't think so based on the universal outrage, even from muslim parents, when FCPS tried to cancel AP exams 3 months out, over the change in the lunar cycle.[/quote]

I had a senior that year.  Her AP test (and it was something like APUSH that affected 1/2 the class) got pushed to the makeup day— which was about a week after she was supposed to be done with APs. Then they tried to cancel the second AP day, when she also had a test.  Which would have meant that tests would have also gone to the makeup day too— and the makeups were scheduled at the same time. She had an AP scheduled on both fake Eid and real Eid, and would have only been allowed to take one of the tests (and she ultimately got college credit for both). I absolutely hit the roof. Muslims should be free to celebrate Eid and schools should make reasonable accommodations. It’s why there is a makeup day. My child should not be forced to give up college credit because of someone else’s religion.

And, of course, this was COVID times, so if my kid had gotten sick, the makeup day would not have been available.

There is a makeup date. It can be used because a child is celebrating a religious holiday. Fair accommodation.  It should not be forced on all kids.

This was also under the “you can’t teach new material, test students, play sports, schedule any event at all” on any “O Day” rules. And we ran into FCPS not letting our kids choose the robotics completion weekend they wanted (5 weekends, you compete on 2, you choose which— maybe not prom weekend, etc). And they tried to say kids couldn’t participate in VHSL sports and completions on O Days— it’s grate you made all state orchestra. You can’t go, because it’s on an O DAY. INSANE.  There ended up not being a senior spring music trip because they ran out of weekends once spring O Days were counted, the spring play, prom, etc were considered. Again, ridiculous. Especially for a peer group that had been in lockdown the prior year.

Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion. When they hit the point my agnostic high school kids misses ECs and academic opportunities because of someone else’s religious beliefs, FCPS should absolutely have been sued.  [/quote]

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