In the never-ending War on Christmas, the Montgomery County Board of Education has dropped the atomic bomb: abolishing Christmas all together. That’s right, instead of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, MCPS has opened fire on the holiday, completely striking it from the school calendar along with Easter, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Except they haven’t. Schools still have those holidays off—the only difference is school calendars will read “No School” instead of citing a religious holiday.

But some media outlets have blown the entire situation out of proportion and out of context. Erroneous headlines from Fox News like “School district cuts religious holidays from calendar” and “School Dumps Christmas, Easter” and even “Montgomery County cuts off its Christmas to spite its Eid” from the Washington Post, don’t explain the full story, contributing to an unwarranted backlash toward a minor tweak.

The decision was a response to the Muslim community’s request for recognition of one of their holy days, Eid al-Adha. The reason Muslim holidays are not days off is entirely logistical. The religious names simply needed to be struck from the calendar to make it clear that high absence rates cause these school holidays, and not religious favoritism.

Students do not have either of the two major Islamic holidays, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr, off from school. Eid al-Adha happened to coincide with Yom Kippur for the 2015-16 school year, so local Muslim leaders tried to have it recognized on the calendar.

However, MCPS’s answer didn’t go as desired, as the board did not make the Muslim holidays days off and names of religious holidays were stricken on the calendar. Some people have even claimed that the decision is a stab at the Muslim community because it still doesn’t recognize their holy days, yet Christian and Jewish holidays are still days off.

But schools are not closed on those days because of religious reasons, which is why they no longer will have a religious name on the calendar. Since so many students and teachers observe holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Easter, schools wouldn’t be able to run effectively. In contrast, the absence rate on Muslim holidays is only five percent, no higher than normal days.

The decision is a natural step forward in the never-ending War on Inequality, which is why the board should be applauded and not hated upon.