I believe it’s some form of Hinduism in this case - some of their scriptures say that eclipses cut off the presence of the gods at the same time as they cut off the sunlight, and that a person who is exposed to an eclipse becomes ritually impure until they can perform certain cleansing rites.
And if that’s true, I have no problem with Hindu parents telling the school they don’t want their child to go outside and watch the eclipse. I’ll respect their beliefs. But banning every kid at the school is entirely different.
Thanks. I guess the school doesn’t want the Hindu kids to feel bad or left out. Kind of like the ACLU position on prayer in the schools when the schools said they would not force children to participate in the day’s prayer. We all know how that turned out.