Maryland School District Removes Religious Holidays from Calendar

school-calendar-NEWS-smShould public schools be closed for the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha? In Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington DC, Muslims have insisted that they should have the same rights on their holidays that Christians and Jews have on theirs. But the county board of education says there aren’t enough Muslim students to justify a day off for everyone. So school officials are taking all the religious names of the holidays off their calendar while keeping only the existing days off.

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