{"id":7376,"date":"2019-04-23T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7376-detroit-schools-close-for-eid-al-fitr-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:53:29","slug":"detroit-schools-close-for-eid-al-fitr-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7376-detroit-schools-close-for-eid-al-fitr-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit schools close for `Eid Al-Fitr for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">For the first time in its history, the Detroit school district announced earlier this month it would be recognizing the Muslim holiday of `Eid Al-Fitr<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in its history, the Detroit school district announced earlier this month it would be recognizing the Muslim holiday of `Eid Al-Fitr during its adoption of the 2019-20 school year calendar, Detroit Free Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Muslims had been obligated to miss school in order to commemorate our sacred holidays, even though the district includes a large population of Muslim students,\u201d expressed Mohammad Muntakim, sophomore at Cass Technical High School and president of the school\u2019s Muslim Student Association.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim students have been calling to recognize `Eid Al-Fitr, like other nearby districts, such as Dearborn Public Schools, the Crestwood School District, and Hamtramck Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Muntakim was among the advocates for the new day off, hinting that the district already recognizes other religious holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The day of observance was among the highlights of the new calendar, which also includes an early start to the school year, more teacher training days, a shorter mid-winter break and several days built in at the end of the academic year for snow days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in its history, the Detroit school district announced earlier this month it would be recognizing the Muslim holiday of `Eid Al-Fitr \u00a0 For the first time in its history, the Detroit school district announced earlier this month it would be recognizing the Muslim holiday of `Eid Al-Fitr during its adoption of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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