Chevy Chase Elementary Canceled Halloween

[Anonymous]

At my daughter’s MCPS elementary they don’t even do Halloween - they have a fall festival where they dress up in things that they make in class that has to do with the curriculum. My son went to a different MCPs elementary school where they did Halloween. I always felt bad for my girl dressing up like a leaf but they still had fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my daughter’s MCPS elementary they don’t even do Halloween - they have a fall festival where they dress up in things that they make in class that has to do with the curriculum. My son went to a different MCPs elementary school where they did Halloween. I always felt bad for my girl dressing up like a leaf but they still had fun.

Why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At my daughter’s MCPS elementary they don’t even do Halloween - they have a fall festival where they dress up in things that they make in class that has to do with the curriculum. My son went to a different MCPs elementary school where they did Halloween. I always felt bad for my girl dressing up like a leaf but they still had fun.

Why?

That sounds like fun, I would have loved dressing like a leaf instead of whatever craptastic costume my mom pulled together with stuff we already had around the house.

I think a lot of parents want to show everyone how creative they are and how adorable their little Larla is. Something that no one really cared about even 20 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

I would assume they have a low income waiver for kids who need it but I cannot imagine that many really need a low income waiver if they are living in CC. Its not unreasonable to charge as someone has to pay for it all.

[Anonymous]

My cause is Halloween and a normal childhood where we don’t overwork things to death. My kid will be wearing a costume.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

I'm so glad you clarified that for the zillionth time (and it's good that you've been repeatedly making this point on every thread about halloween, wouldn't want anyone to miss out on this insight )

You know you’re responding to more than one person making this (very obvious, but very clearly confusing to hysterical moms screaming OMG THEY CANCELLED HALLOWEEEEEEN) point, right?

Just flagging that this is the MCPS schools board. The thing we are talking about is, definitionally, Halloween as it's celebrated at MCPS schools. If you would like to talk about Halloween as it will be celebrated outside of MCPS schools, go find another board.

Halloween in every county in America is October 31st — this year, a Sunday. You’re not entitled to class parties, parades or costumes during school and no, Virginia, they have not “OMG cancelled Halloween!!!!!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

Per the flyer I got, it is $5. But I agree that the school should still do the Halloween parade.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

It's part of a woke plot to destroy all that is sacred!

Sacred? I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

I would assume they have a low income waiver for kids who need it but I cannot imagine that many really need a low income waiver if they are living in CC. Its not unreasonable to charge as someone has to pay for it all.

Some of the students live in a different neighborhood and are lower income - $10 per child is a stretch for many families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

Too funny! I would hope by now you understand that the middle class kids subsidize the poor kids in mcps? Any school fee is "waived" (this means your cost is higher) and same goes for school supplies and sports specials that cost money, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

Too funny! I would hope by now you understand that the middle class kids subsidize the poor kids in mcps? Any school fee is "waived" (this means your cost is higher) and same goes for school supplies and sports specials that cost money, etc.

It's not a school fee. This is a PTA fundraiser. There is no option to go for free.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the fall festival is also going to cost $10 per kid. This is unfortunate. Some kids won’t be able to attend and won’t have transportation to get there on a Sunday afternoon.

I would assume they have a low income waiver for kids who need it but I cannot imagine that many really need a low income waiver if they are living in CC. Its not unreasonable to charge as someone has to pay for it all.

Some of the students live in a different neighborhood and are lower income - $10 per child is a stretch for many families.

I think the hardest part will be for these kids to get there. There were only two parties a year at CCES and now they are canceling one of them. Will Valentine’s Day be next? And what do they have to look forward to in middle school? Oh yeah, go check out the middle school shock thread. Too bad they can’t be kids in at least elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect the OP is complaining largely because she doesn't like the principal. Which is understandable. She's a polarizing personality.

I think they did the wear a color for a cause thing when my kid was there a couple years ago, during spirit week. My kid refuses to do any of the spirit week days on principal -- except for PJ day, because he thinks every day should be PJ day. I was a little concerned he would be socially shamed for not picking a cause to support (remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer won't wear the ribbon?), but I think it was okay. It does strike me as a little odd to pressure people to pick a cause .... maybe they want to support multiple causes? This seems stressful for 8 year olds. I generally think all the spirit day things, except for PJ day, are more stressful for kids than fun.

You are basing your fear of your child being ostracized on the satirical ostracizing of a fictional adult in a comedy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This seems crazily divisive are they really prepared for kids to come in MAGA hats? And other kids to come in amnesty international shirts, and then for fights to ensue (where they are mostly purporting their parents views anyway). Why would you set kids up to do this?l. This will be way more trouble than a Halloween parade…also it seems weirdly anti-pagan like something I’d expect at a strict Christian school.

My kid isn’t the type, but I would have picked something inflammatory just because.