Arab civic leader calls for 2 board members to quit

The president of the Baltimore chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is calling for the resignations of two Baltimore County school board members after their walk-out during his presentation at a board meeting on Aug. 22.

Dr. Bash Pharoan and other Baltimore County Muslim parents and students have been seeking to close public schools on two Islamic Holy days, as the system does with two Jewish holidays. Toward the end of Pharoan?s three-minute presentation last month, which included a poster with photos of Israeli children signing their names on missiles headed toward Lebanon, board members Joy Shillman and Frances Harris left their seats and did not return.