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Tell Michael Bloomberg: Recognize Two Muslim Holidays in NYC Public School Calendar
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The NYC school calendar includes major Christian and Jewish holidays like Easter, Christmas, and Yom Kippur, but no Muslim holy days. That means that close to 12 percent - or 120,000 - of New York City's 1.1 million students must choose between their education and their faith, forced to miss assignments and make-up classwork in order to celebrate their religious holidays.

Activists are now calling on Mayor Bloomberg to approve a measure that will add two of the major Muslim holy days -- Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha -- on the public school calendar. Already all of the presidents of New York's five boroughs, as well as Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Comptroller John Liu support the measure. It's time for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to join them, too.

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Please recognize Muslim holy days in NYC public school calendar

Dear Mayor Bloomberg

The NYC school calendar includes major Christian and Jewish holidays like Easter, Christmas, and Yom Kippur, but no Muslim holy days. That means that close to 12 percent — or 120,000 — of New York City's 1.1 million students must choose between their education and their faith, forced to miss assignments and make-up classwork in order to celebrate their religious holidays.

Currently, many activists, as well as the presidents of all five of NYC's boroughs, support a measure adding two Muslim holy days to the NYC public school calendar -- Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha. I urge you to support this measure. These students deserve the opportunity to live their faith, without being punished in the classroom.

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