Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 21:00     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
What are you so scared of OP?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 20:56     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’d contact the office of DEI because they aren’t offering Seders or Easter dinners to my knowledge. I sometimes get the feeling that we tiptoe around Muslims in APS


DHMS hosted a Passover Seder last year.

Great! My school only explicitly acknowledges Muslim holidays
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 20:55     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Anonymous wrote:I’d contact the office of DEI because they aren’t offering Seders or Easter dinners to my knowledge. I sometimes get the feeling that we tiptoe around Muslims in APS


DHMS hosted a Passover Seder last year.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 20:44     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
I can’t wait for the Seder and Easter dinner that are sure to follow.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 19:39     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Interesting. I’m glad that Fairfax put an end to this madness. Hope Arlington will do the same.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 18:41     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Check out the fairfax county schools forum here. Same thing was going to happen at a school there (Frost middle school), but apparently someone complained to the superintendent and the principal cancelled it.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:48     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Anonymous wrote:Probably someone at Syphax. There’s a whole church that meets at Gunston on Sundays, you can complain about that while you’re at it. Let us know how it goes.


NP. Surely you see the difference in a school building used by a religious group, and an event organized & advertised by a public school?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:31     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Good idea
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:28     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
I’d contact the office of DEI because they aren’t offering Seders or Easter dinners to my knowledge. I sometimes get the feeling that we tiptoe around Muslims in APS
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:13     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Schools should not be hosting religious events.

Schools can offer their buildings up to other organizations to host religious events.

But school staff should not be organizing and hosting religious events. Lots of Court rulings on this.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:12     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Email whitemagaconcerns@aspsva.us
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:12     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
What’s your specific concern?
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:11     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Probably someone at Syphax. There’s a whole church that meets at Gunston on Sundays, you can complain about that while you’re at it. Let us know how it goes.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:01     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
Probably not DCUM
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 16:59     Subject: DHMS Hosting Religious Event
DHMS is hosting an Iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan next week. The event is being organized and advertised by school staff.

Who should I contact within APS to voice my concerns about the school hosting a religious event?