Posted on 04/24/2018 9:59:39 AM PDT by blam
Muslim parents recently erupted when the Jersey City school board announced it would not suddenly cancel classes for all students to mark Islam’s Eid al-Adha holiday, due Sept. 24. The Muslim parents loudly protested even though the board said students “can continue to take days off for religious purposes without penalty,” including Sept. 24. But the parents wanted the state to accept their religious event, and to impose their holiday on other students.
One Muslim woman who attended the September 17 meeting said, “‘We’re no longer the minority, that’s clear from tonight. We’re going to be the majority soon.”
According to Daily Mail, the Jersey City school board had “originally proposed” cancelling classes on the 24 but “voted to keep Jersey City schools open so as not to cause disruptions for non-Muslim families.” Board member Gerald Lyons explained that deciding to close the school “on six days’ notice…[would] cause undue hardship on 5,000 to 10,000 people, who are going to have to scramble to [make arrangements] for…children” being at home instead of school.
When the board announced this decision “several of the Muslim parents and children screamed in rage and openly wept.” Eid al-Adha is one “of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world to mark the end…of Ramadan.”
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no charters, let them build and pay for their own schools like every other group has done.
Of course, but the law is the law - and it does provide healthy competition for the teachers’ unions. Those unions single-handedly put our Catholic education system out of business; now charters rents the shells of the closed schools (and take taxpayer money to which those unions felt entitled).
What law? That we fund religious education?
Where is that?
As far as I know, charters do not fund catholic or any other religious school.
Islam/Moslims are a religion soooooo they can fund their own damned schools.
Muslims Erupt As School Board Refuses To Shut School For Islamic Holiday
Want religious schools - GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
Islamic charter schools:
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/islamist-running-140-tax-funded-charter-schools-in-u-s/
So who is going to sue?
This is illegal
I don’t believe the charter school is framed in a religious context - just happens to be a Muzzie magnet.
Thanks blam.
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