{"id":13450,"date":"2016-06-08T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2016-06-08T20:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:46:42","slug":"19-hindu-festivals-on-new-jersey-school-holiday-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/19-hindu-festivals-on-new-jersey-school-holiday-list\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Schools Add 19 Hindu Festivals to Religious Holiday Lists for Indian-origin Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Jersey schools have recently added as many as 19 Hindu festivals to their holiday lists, as per a directive from the State Board of Education<\/strong>. The school-going students from the Hindu community in the state of New Jersey will be able to take leave on those festivals without facing any repercussion from the school authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>While <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/best-indian-restaurants-nyc-for-best-indian-food-in-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indians in New York<\/a><\/span> are still struggling to make Diwali a public holiday, the Hindu community\u2019s right to religious freedom during certain festivals including Navaratri and Diwali is acknowledged in New Jersey.<\/strong> It is a reason for New Jersey\u2019s Indian community to rejoice. There are approximately 3 lakh Indians in the state of New Jersey, according to the 2010 census.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hindu-festivals-on-New-Jersey-school-holiday-lists-in-USA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13457 size-full\" title=\"New Jersey Schools Add 19 Hindu Festivals to Religious Holiday Lists for Indian-origin Students\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hindu-festivals-on-New-Jersey-school-holiday-lists-in-USA.jpg\" alt=\"Indian festivals in USA, New Jersey school holidays, Hindu festivals in USA, NRI news\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Jersey school holiday list includes the following Hindu festivals for Indian-origin students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guru Purnima<\/li>\n<li>Naga Panchami<\/li>\n<li>Raksha Bandhan<\/li>\n<li>Krishna Janmashtami<\/li>\n<li>Ganesh Chaturthi<\/li>\n<li>Makar Sankranti<\/li>\n<li>Vasant Panchami<\/li>\n<li>Maha Shivaratri<\/li>\n<li>Ramnavami<\/li>\n<li>Hanuman Jayanti<\/li>\n<li>Souramana Yugadi<\/li>\n<li>Chandramana Yugadi<\/li>\n<li>Govardhan Puja<\/li>\n<li>Navaratri<\/li>\n<li>Dussehra<\/li>\n<li>Diwali<\/li>\n<li>Pongal<\/li>\n<li>Onam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The new list of religious holidays for schools in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a><\/span> makes it mandatory to excuse any Hindu student\u2019s absence during any of the above-mentioned festivals.<\/strong> According to the New Jersey State Board of Education, the Hindu students should not be deprived of any opportunity to compete for any award in any niche due to their absence from schools on religious holidays related to their festivals listed above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The directive to New Jersey schools also states, \u201cStudents who miss a test or examination because of absence on a religious holiday must be given the right to take an alternate test or examination.\u201d<\/strong> The schools are also mandated to record such absences as excused absences. \u00a0Even any student takes leave or is absent during Navaratri which continues for nine days, the school authority is barred from taking any punitive action against them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Travel Beats\u00a0is a digital news portal for Indians and NRIs by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-from-seattle-sea-to-india-in\" target=\"_blank\">IndianEagle<\/a>, a leading international organization booking travel between the US and India. 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