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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 11:39 AM Original message |
School District Cancels Classes For Islamic Holiday |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Cool! |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sounds good |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. I always love the names religions come up with for this sort of thing... |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. Eid al-Adha is not always in the fall; It moves around the year depending on the Islamic calendar |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't think public schools should be in the business of observing ANY religious holidays. |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. +1000 Closing school on Christmas Day is an abomination and the American people are fed up with it |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Shouldn't schools be closed for Thursday and Friday of the Masters? |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. They don't close schools for Xmas |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 06:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. what a strange coincidence. Christmas Day is not even a legal holiday anymore? |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-08-11 06:41 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. They might schedule Spring Break around Easter |
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Pigheaded (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. WRONG |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 06:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. No. |
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Township75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. One step back for the separation of church and state, yet some here at DU will support this. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Well, there are practical reasons |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. Cambridge is exuberantly diverse |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. What's next? Festivus? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. For the rest of us. |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. Backwards, totally backwards ! |
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Sgent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-07-11 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. Get rid of all religious holidays as such.... |
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