It's this type of hysteria that gives FReepers a bad name.
There was a similar article about a school in Dearborn, MI earlier this week, and the same hysterical FReeper reaction.
If the school does not have a certain percentage of students attend on a given day, it does not legally count as a day of instruction. Schools need to provide so many days of instruction per year, by state law. If they hold school on a day and enough students stay home, the day and all the salaries and utility bills are wasted taxpayer money.
Cause they'll have to add another day to the calendar to make up for this day.
This is true whether the holiday that kids stay home for is Christmas, Festivus, or Eid. It has nothing to do with the school recognizing a religion.
It has everything to do with not wasting time and money. FReepers usually think not wasting taxpayer money is a good thing.
SD
OH, really? We MUST stand up and speak out! Our lives depend on it!
Please consider the following thought penned by a Nazi prisoner:
"First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out --
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out --
because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out --
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me --
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
~~Pastor Martin Niemoller
(victim of the Nazis)
Is there anything we can learn from this?
When they came for the Catholics?
When they came for the Baptists?
When they came for the fundamentalists?
When they came for the agnostics?
When they came for the physically disabled?
When they came for the mentally disabled?
Just something for all of us to think about -- is this picture larger than we currently see it?