National News article: Are Minneapolis Schools culturally competent?

http://www.startribune.com/local/116886708.html

This article represents what we were talking about in class this week. Schools need to learn to accept and incorporate different cultures into the schools.

This article focused on a harder topic. I think they wanted to incorporate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, however, it conflicted with the start date of school. Most schools do not like to start the school year late and they decided to dismiss the idea of doing so just for the holiday of Ramadan.

I feel that if all christian holidays are celebrated by the dismissal of school, so should all different holidays from different cultures and religions. The school is letting the  Muslim children who are missing school because of the holiday of Ramadan be excused, but is this good enough?