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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From today's e-mail:

"At present, per state law, we need to make up four instructional days. There are two days that we have identified in the calendar that will be changed from non-instructional days to instructional days: March 20th will be a full instructional day. June 18th will be an early release instructional day and the new last day of the school year for students and staff. Other potential make up days are also being considered and some of those days may require additional approvals before being announced - none of those potential days are in February.

Like other localities in Maryland, we will be requesting a waiver from the state of some of the missed instructional days. Pending the outcome of that waiver, we will update our Make-Up plan and share that with you as soon as we know."[/quote]

Who received this email?[/quote]

This is unfair. The jews got their holidays, Indians got their diwali, Christians will get their Easter and Passover, they are not even taking away lunar new year!! They came after a muslim holiday?? It is not a good look MCPS![/quote]

This was in the email:

[QUOTE]Note: students observing Eid al-Fitr (March 19, 20) will receive an excused absence.[/QUOTE]
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Excusing an absence is still putting a penalty on the student to not only learn something that was taught to other children, but not to them, but also to make up work after hours on their own time. Now imagine they have missed other days around it for illness or other health condition.[/quote]

It is not possible to have the entire school system take off for every single possible holiday that any family in Montgomery County might celebrate.

I do agree, though, that it's a bad look to have off for Diwali, Passover and Lunar New Year but not this. So I think MCPS should have this policy apply to those holidays too.

What solution are you seeking? Do you want to have the days off for Eid al-Fitr and extend the school year?[/quote]

Since MCPS already days off for all the other religious holidays they should have Eid off too. Its unfair. To make it fair it would make more sense to use Presidents day for make up or shorten spring break instead of using one religious holiday as a makeup when the rest of them were given off.
Next year, it would make sense to not give any religious holidays if they want to be fair.[/quote]

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