Killjoys cancelling Halloween--is this the new normal?

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Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

Dressing up can be as simple as you make it. Pin on a piece of red paper cut into a lightening bolt on a red t-shirt, get a tube of red face paint at the dollar store and paint a “mask” on. The kid is “Flash”. Get a white sheet at goodwill, cut some holes for eyes, you gave a ghost.
It takes creativity but not lots of money.
I think it is absolutely awful to cancel Halloween.

No one is cancelling Halloween. Although I think you should definitely ask kids how it feels to show up in a handmade costume when all your friends are wearing store-bought.

My kids and I both know how it feels. We think it’s more fun, actually to bond over the process of coming up with the what and how. I make all my kids costumes from scratch and they not only often look better than store bought, they are cheaper too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

What about pajama day? I never understood how that was equitable. PJs are optional, kids can sleep in their clothes.

A lot of schools eliminated this —also under pressure from fundamentalists.

why are you blaming fundamentalists when you probably dont really know why pajama day was cancelled?
I can tell you why our school cancelled it. Not all kids have nice pajamas that they would feel good about wearing out of the house.

Then they can wear sweats/shorts and a t-shirt. No need to cancel these things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

What about pajama day? I never understood how that was equitable. PJs are optional, kids can sleep in their clothes.

A lot of schools eliminated this —also under pressure from fundamentalists.

why are you blaming fundamentalists when you probably dont really know why pajama day was cancelled?
I can tell you why our school cancelled it. Not all kids have nice pajamas that they would feel good about wearing out of the house.

Then they can wear sweats/shorts and a t-shirt. No need to cancel these things.

So...why have pajama day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

What about pajama day? I never understood how that was equitable. PJs are optional, kids can sleep in their clothes.

A lot of schools eliminated this —also under pressure from fundamentalists.

why are you blaming fundamentalists when you probably dont really know why pajama day was cancelled?
I can tell you why our school cancelled it. Not all kids have nice pajamas that they would feel good about wearing out of the house.

Then they can wear sweats/shorts and a t-shirt. No need to cancel these things.

So...why have pajama day?

I meant the kids that don’t want to wear pjs can opt to do that, why do any event under your philosophy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

What about pajama day? I never understood how that was equitable. PJs are optional, kids can sleep in their clothes.

A lot of schools eliminated this —also under pressure from fundamentalists.

why are you blaming fundamentalists when you probably dont really know why pajama day was cancelled?
I can tell you why our school cancelled it. Not all kids have nice pajamas that they would feel good about wearing out of the house.

Then they can wear sweats/shorts and a t-shirt. No need to cancel these things.

So...why have pajama day?

I meant the kids that don’t want to wear pjs can opt to do that, why do any event under your philosophy?

Why not have a different day? Like if the schools had Wear Your Horseback Riding Clothes day, on the one hand, you could say, "Just wear jeans and a t-shirt," or on the other hand, you could say, "Maybe the school should have a different school-spirit day that all kids can participate in."

For what it's worth, in elementary school, my middle-class kids slept in adult T-shirts, which were their pajamas, and they didn't wear them to school on pajama day. So it's not just the poors who have potential issues participating in a pajama day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This kind of thing drives me crazy because dressing up isn’t necessarily free. How is it equity to add one more costume request to a family budget?

What about pajama day? I never understood how that was equitable. PJs are optional, kids can sleep in their clothes.

A lot of schools eliminated this —also under pressure from fundamentalists.

why are you blaming fundamentalists when you probably dont really know why pajama day was cancelled?
I can tell you why our school cancelled it. Not all kids have nice pajamas that they would feel good about wearing out of the house.

Then they can wear sweats/shorts and a t-shirt. No need to cancel these things.

So...why have pajama day?

I meant the kids that don’t want to wear pjs can opt to do that, why do any event under your philosophy?

My son never wanted to wear pjs to school and we are not low income. But that shouldn’t keep others from doing it. My your standard nothing would be okay.


Why not have a different day? Like if the schools had Wear Your Horseback Riding Clothes day, on the one hand, you could say, "Just wear jeans and a t-shirt," or on the other hand, you could say, "Maybe the school should have a different school-spirit day that all kids can participate in."

For what it's worth, in elementary school, my middle-class kids slept in adult T-shirts, which were their pajamas, and they didn't wear them to school on pajama day. So it's not just the poors who have potential issues participating in a pajama day.

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My son never wanted to wear pjs to school and we are not low income. But that shouldn’t keep others from doing it. My your standard nothing would be okay.

Because if you can't have pajama day, there's nothing else to have?

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My son never wanted to wear pjs to school and we are not low income. But that shouldn’t keep others from doing it. My your standard nothing would be okay.

Because if you can't have pajama day, there's nothing else to have?

If only they put the same effort into educating children that they put into pajama day

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Anonymous wrote:Just heard that my kids elementary school is not doing Halloween in the name of equity. Some families don't celebrate and they wanted to be inclusive. Instead it will be "dress like your favorite book character day" but no ghosts, ghouls, vampires, or dementors allowed. No parade or Halloween-themes crafts. I'm wondering if this is widespread throughout the county or if our school principal is uniquely anti-fun.

Wonder if we go to the same school. I just got the same email and I’m fuming. It’s ridiculous. The principal banned GHOSTS but student can wear Harry Potter costumes.

PPabove. The principal is also allowed fun games for thirty minutes as long as there are absolutely no Halloween games. For real.

This doesn't happen to be Ritchie Park, does it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just heard that my kids elementary school is not doing Halloween in the name of equity. Some families don't celebrate and they wanted to be inclusive. Instead it will be "dress like your favorite book character day" but no ghosts, ghouls, vampires, or dementors allowed. No parade or Halloween-themes crafts. I'm wondering if this is widespread throughout the county or if our school principal is uniquely anti-fun.

Wonder if we go to the same school. I just got the same email and I’m fuming. It’s ridiculous. The principal banned GHOSTS but student can wear Harry Potter costumes.

PPabove. The principal is also allowed fun games for thirty minutes as long as there are absolutely no Halloween games. For real.

This doesn't happen to be Ritchie Park, does it?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but I thought equity and equality and diversity including embracing and celebrating all walks of life and culture. Never have I understood it to mean abandoning American culture at least when it comes to Halloween.

This. This. This.

What are we getting rid of American culture for? You all want to celebrate my foreign holiday instead?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but I thought equity and equality and diversity including embracing and celebrating all walks of life and culture. Never have I understood it to mean abandoning American culture at least when it comes to Halloween.

This. This. This.

What are we getting rid of American culture for? You all want to celebrate my foreign holiday instead?

Good news! We're not!

[Anonymous]

Why cancel Halloween? It's the one day a year some of these idiots will wear a mask.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused. Is the issue that ghosts and dementors get preferential treatment over superheros? How is this an equity issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just heard that my kids elementary school is not doing Halloween in the name of equity. Some families don't celebrate and they wanted to be inclusive. Instead it will be "dress like your favorite book character day" but no ghosts, ghouls, vampires, or dementors allowed. No parade or Halloween-themes crafts. I'm wondering if this is widespread throughout the county or if our school principal is uniquely anti-fun.

OP are you at Farmland? I found it funny that dementors were mentioned along with ghosts in the email. No one is taking Halloween away though from our children considering Halloween is on a Sunday