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Killjoys cancelling Halloween--is this the new normal?
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Anonymous
Wut |
Anonymous
| I just love reading the outrage in this thread; it’s so 2019 to be worried about this. |
Anonymous
Yet here you are in the midst of it |
Anonymous
Oh, sweetie, look in the mirror. Sad. |
Anonymous
People, you are being so childish. Reading this is embarrassing. |
Anonymous
Then stop reading |
Anonymous
We get it, you’re sad. No one cares. |
Anonymous
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Our school has never celebrated Halloween - I’ve had kids there for five years.
We have a “Fall Party” and keep the themes focused on autumn vs Halloween. Here’s the thing: the kids LOVE it and don’t care about Halloween. They just love the celebration, the goodies, the craft. This year parents aren’t invited because of Covid, which is understandable. It’s the parents like OP that want to stomp their feet and project all sorts of nonsense. |
Anonymous
I am neither sad nor crying. You are the ones howling like 6-year-olds because your kids don’t get to play dress up and have Halloween parties at school. The rest of us understand that Halloween is the evening of October 31 and we take our kids trick or treating. Bye now. |
Anonymous
Not the PP but I'm absolutely boggled that people old enough to have ES-aged kids claim not to remember this. I can excuse the immigrants from this piece of shared cultural history, but "Get the Devil's Holiday Out of Schools" was absolutely 100% a front in the 1980s and 1990s culture wars, led by the right wing. This was also the era where Christian kids were encouraged to come pray around the flagpole every morning, in order to protest not being "allowed" to pray in school. In reality, they were allowed to pray in school but the teacher wasn't allowed to lead them in prayer. Anyways, yes, getting Halloween out of schools was absolutely a right-wing evangelical wedge issue, taken up at school boards across the country. |
Anonymous
| Life did seem more free spirited when I was a kid. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing you didn't grow up somewhere with Christian Dominionists controlling local/state politics. I grew up in a deeply Red county, and not only did we not have Halloween in schools, there was also no support from local government. No Truck or Treats at the library, no dress-up parades through the neighbohood, no extended street lights on Halloween. So, we had conservatives controlling school and private life. |
Anonymous
Again, this didn’t come from the Left. My principal is picking his battles with the Right carefully. He’s letting them win on no Halloween and fighting them on racism and homophobia. |
Anonymous
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Y'all need to stop assuming that this is always a decision made by the right or the left or for political reasons at all. In my MCPS ES, we used to have a Halloween parade. Parents could opt their kids out if they wanted. We started having more and more kids opting out because we have a significant population that doesn't celebrate Halloween for religious reasons. But those kids need to be supervised and engaged, so the teachers were in a position where they had to get 70-80% of the kids in their class into costumes and through a parade, and 20% of the class to another alternate activity where they would be supervised. This became a massive PITA for the school. So, we went to a Fall Festival. Much easier. It's just logistics, based on the cummulative effects of individual family choices.
Kids seem fine with it, btw. |