Muslim students met with administrators to express their concerns and come up with a compromise for an organized prayer option.
Muslim parents in Philadelphia worry schools aren't making accommodations for Ramadan, several schools and workplaces have made accommodations for those who are participating in religious practices.
"It was like a big day for her, a big moment," said Williams. "She had prepared the night before like, 'How do I wrap my scarf?'" Williams says her daughter was told she couldn't wear her khimar, which is a head covering. The girl was otherwise dressed in her full uniform, her mother said. Clothing isn't the only concern parents are dealing with during Ramadan. Tifphanie Lawton worried that her children's school, the Mathematics, Civics, and Sciences Charter School in Spring Garden, would stop their prayer.
"We had so much disruptions in previous years of the lessons, that we were not going to allow students to go through the hallways and pull other students out of the classroom," said Veronica J. Joyner, founder and chief administrative officer of the Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School.
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