School System to Get Muslim Holiday

October 10, 2010

Author: Brock Parker

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2010/10/10/school_system_to_get_muslim_holiday/

As a Muslim and a high school senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 17-year-old Dunia Kassay faces a tough choice every year on Islamic holy days: go to school or stay home to be with family and friends.

 

If she stays home, Kassay says, she will be forced to play catch-up and make up her school assignments. But if she goes to school, she will be neglecting what she feels is her religious obligation on holidays such as Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.