Muslim holidays in NYC public schools, DeBlasio bribes kids with vacation
New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio announced Wednesday that kids citywide just scored two more days off the school calendar. New York City schools will now break for Eid al-Adha, on September 24 this year, and Eid al-Fitr, which is during summer school.
Former mayor Bloomberg-Scrooge opposed adding the holidays because it would make the school year shorter. But lucky for kids and their brains alike, public schools get two more holidays, and yet still have 182 days of class per year.
If the kids also manage to miss math class, they won't realize their total number of school days remains unchanged.
However, Lunar New Year, the traditional east Asian festival of being stuffed with food and then called "fat" by one's relatives, still doesn't get a day off, but they're working on it.
New York has around a million Muslim residents, and absenteeism has reached 30 percent on Muslim holidays in the past. The same is also true of the interdenominational festival of 4-20, but DeBlasio was strangely silent on the issue.
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Former mayor Bloomberg-Scrooge opposed adding the holidays because it would make the school year shorter. But lucky for kids and their brains alike, public schools get two more holidays, and yet still have 182 days of class per year.
If the kids also manage to miss math class, they won't realize their total number of school days remains unchanged.
However, Lunar New Year, the traditional east Asian festival of being stuffed with food and then called "fat" by one's relatives, still doesn't get a day off, but they're working on it.
New York has around a million Muslim residents, and absenteeism has reached 30 percent on Muslim holidays in the past. The same is also true of the interdenominational festival of 4-20, but DeBlasio was strangely silent on the issue.
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