You could discriminate against education and have it on a weekday. Just 
kidding Dan -- I realise it is educational too.

However, as a parent of 4 who has been to more events, tournaments, etc, 
etc, than most, I can say that I have never noticed any accommodation 
for any religious or other holiday or day -- everything routinely runs 
on weekends, Saturday and Sunday including days that are very sacred in 
different religions. I fear if you start trying to make things work 
around particular days it will be never ending. Thus said, if I was 
doing scheduling and was actually easily able to accommodate a 
particular 'need' I would obviously do that. However, even that is 
certainly not the norm -- I remember taking one kid to a soccer game on 
the other side of Toronto for 8.30 pm the night before the start of the 
middle school first day in the Fall for all kids in Ontario. The fact 
that the fields were mainly empty much of the day didn't stop anything 
-- if the League schedules, the League schedules, common sense be darned 
(in fact, the League was right -- the kids were all so terrified of the 
start of school this was a welcome distraction for all!!).

Sally

Daniel Herron wrote:
> There has been some vehement discussion in NY regarding the high 
> school mock trial national tournament not accomodating teams from 
> Orthodox Jewish schools in that competitions are held Friday evening 
> and Saturday.  Of course, fundamental Christian schools refuse to 
> compete on Sundays.  State and Federal courthouses---where these 
> tournaments are held---tend only to be available on the weekends.
>  
> In collegiate mock trial, we (I am legal counsel to the mock trial 
> board of directors) state that we discriminate against ALL religions 
> and have competitions from Friday night through Sunday evenings.  What 
> are your thoughts on this kind of "discrimination?"  How can we in 
> mock trial "reasonably accomodate."
>  
> Dan Herron
>
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