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Should schools close for Eid holidays? Muslims are divided

c. 2014 Religion News Service

(RNS) Seema Imam, a professor of education at National Louis University in Chicago, jokes that she wouldn’t mind if schools closed for the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr.

“More days off from work? Sure,” said Imam, whose children grew up in the Chicago public school system.