For some students in the suburbs of Washington, Christmas -- or at least recognition of it on their school calendars -- has been canceled.
The Montgomery County school board voted Tuesday to eliminate all references to religious holidays on school calendars, beginning in the 2015-16 school year. That includes Christmas and Easter, as well as Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
The vote came after a recommendation by schools Superintendent Joshua Starr that the board consider removing the names of religious holidays from the calendar in response to a request from Muslim community leaders to give equal billing to their holy day of Eid al-Adha. Starr told MyFoxDC that the county's public schools would still be closed on Christian and Jewish holidays due to the significant number of staff and student absences on those days, but technically not due to any religious observance.
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7 comments:
So now the politically correct liberals are going to allow Muslims to control our calenders for their religious reasons.
Little bits and pieces of our culture are being compromised for cultures that had nothing to do with founding of our Country. These things worry me.
Sorry you are blind to the fact that under the circumstances this is actually a good decision.
They had two choices;
Make it vanilla or cave to muslim pressure and demands.
This was their only viable option.
Nothing was taken away from anyone, you still get your holidays off, who cares what it is called.
11:01 don't know much about history.
We were founded on religious freedom.
Sometimes good people must become violent.
"We were founded on religious freedom."
WTF does that have to do with anything? NO ONE is telling these buffoons that they can't howl at their moon god. They are perfectly free to practice whatever deviant form of religion they so choose. You better understand that this crap is not about religion - it is about control. 11:01's statement was perfectly accurate.
4:53 - hey simple mind. Yes they can, which is why religion needs to get out of public schools, or they have just as much right to ask for observed holidays as much as the jews and christians.
as far as I knew these were not the only 2 religions in the world.
Therefore there is nothing to "fear". its about time we left religion to the church
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