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Posted on 11/08/2011 3:04:28 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Public school students in Cambridge will get a day off Monday in what officials believe will be the first time in the state that a school district has scheduled a holiday to recognize an Islamic holy day.
The district-wide school holiday will recognize Eid Al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, and was approved by the Cambridge School Committee last year.
“We’re ecstatic about this,” said Atif Harden, the interim executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. “This is the first year that it’s going to occur. This sort of recognition of our existence and the population we have, we feel very good about.”
Cambridge School officials said they approved the day off from school last year in an effort to make it easier for Muslim students to honor their highest holy days. Every year, city schools will close either for Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha, depending on which holiday falls within the school year. If both fall within the school calendar, the district will close for only one of those days.
Cambridge schools already close for some Christian and Jewish holidays, and Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Young said the school district has a significant number of Muslim students.
“I think this shows that we live up to our values and our values are of inclusion and of respect,” Young said.
State and federal laws require schools to make reasonable accommodation for the religious needs of students and in observance of holy days, but the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education leaves decisions about how to do that up to individual school districts.
Glenn Koocher, the executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, said that to his knowledge Cambridge is the first school district in Massachusetts to close schools for a Muslim holiday.
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Wow...If they close school for every religious day on earth, how many days will be left for school, not that they get any education anyway.
Mr. Young is a liar.
Cambridge School officials said they approved the day off from school last year in an effort to make it easier for Muslim students to honor their highest holy days. Every year, city schools will close either for Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha
Making a choice for them, between the two days, doesn't respect them.
Now, for the followers of the One True Faith, of course having a religious holiday for Eid Al-Adha is pretty much mandatory.Of course government schools will close for that! Mandate it by law! Why not??
That whole official state religion thing sort of snuck up on us, didn't it?
Are your parents first cousins? Did you marry your first cousin? Do you plan to marry your daughters to your siblings' sons?
Then you can't really be respectful.
Have you converted? Have you said the magic words?
Then you can't really be respectful.
Do you keep pork products out of your cafeteria? Do you approve of marrying little girls to filthy old goats? Do you approve of men having harems, all supported by Welfare?
You're not really respectful.
You should make all the little girls to wear blankets with eyeholes cut in them, and not allow them in class with the boys. Better yet, beat the crap out of them everyday.
Have a "hate the Jews and Christians and kill them" day.
We want to be respectful, after all.
Thats OK, they can make it up on December 25th, which we are not allowed to call a holy day.
Maybe we should call Christmas “the festival of birth”?
They have to pick two in order to get at least one each year.
Since their holidays change dates with the moon cycle if they had only one they would be without a holiday for a few years as it moved through the summer months.
Next years Ramadan is from around 20 July to 20 August.
“Maybe we should call Christmas “the festival of birth”?”
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Yea, but they would have to find a Marxist that was born on that day.
Maybe the new America will have legal holidays for the births
of Marx and Lenin.
Tuesday Dress Code is Black-
Everyone must bring a broom and a familiar.
FIRE THIS IDIOT. Is there no one in this whole district who will register outrage at this unconstitutional forcing a cult of hate down our throats. Don’t pay taxes for this.
Or have the people lost their spines? If so, prepare for your chains.
Is this country changing religions? It seems to be changing languages at Lowe’s. Our borders are porous, too.
Borders, language & culture - Michael Savage
“Is this country changing religions? It seems to be changing languages”
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Yep..Soon there will be national holiday for Che Guevara.
Ummm..hello lefties! “Seperation of church and state” anyone? If Christmas became winter break, maybe we can call this a “day off”.
Don’t try to inject facts into the discussion — this is FR.
A more appropriate day would be a day in early September where I always find myself thinking of Islam and their
contributions to this country and elsewhere. “Everything
I Need To Know About Islam I Learned On 9/11”...What do you
say, Cambridge?
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