text: The question is what the role of schools should be in propagating particular religious faiths. It has been made clear they should have no role propagating the majority, Christian one, even to Christian kids, but then it does in propagating minority ones? The reason parents and imams want the schools to be involved is that they act as enforcers of a rule they couldn't make their kids follow otherwise. Is that the role of schools?
  
  In Indonesia and Israel, two places I have been to recently,  most businesses and offices close for the afternoon, i.e. 1:00 or 2:00 on Friday, not the whole day. That gives people plenty of time to go to the mosque for afternoon or evening services, or prepare for the Sabbath meal before sunset (although in Tel-aviv, it seems to mean people can go to the beach for the afternoon...:-)) . 
  
  Given our school days actually end quite early, our schedule doesn't make as big a difference as you claim.