Neal McCluskey on Religious Holidays and School Choice
There's a lot of anger in Montgomery County, Maryland, after the school board voted to officially remove all religious holidays from the district calendar. The goal was to placate Muslim families tired of their kids having to go to school on Muslim holidays while children of other religions got their holidays off. The end result has been widespread indignation from people of all religious stripes. But religion is not the root problem, notes the Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey. Public schooling is.
