How does your kids' school celebrate Halloween?

[Anonymous]

MCPS - Halloween parade and party. This is the best because so many parents show up to watch the parade. It’s a huge event and lots of parents get to meet each other.

[Anonymous]

FCPS - F. but also, we were not actually notified, I just heard from other parents that Halloween is ignored at school. Except there was the Cox Farms mega school field trip a couple weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS - Halloween parade and party. This is the best because so many parents show up to watch the parade. It’s a huge event and lots of parents get to meet each other.

That sounds nice. We’re in Takoma Park and the elementary school said no Halloween “in an effort to be inclusive,” but on Friday the kids can wear school colors for school spirit!

[Anonymous]

DCPS: A always, B some years (depends on teachers), used to do C but stopped a couple years ago and I'm grateful because there are already too many "events" associated with Halloween and I don't need to also leave work even earlier in order to stand around while 300 kids saunter by in costumes.

Our school does often try to force a "dress as a book character" or "dress as a vocab word" rule but people disregard it if their kid just wants to go as Moana or Black Panther or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS: A always, B some years (depends on teachers), used to do C but stopped a couple years ago and I'm grateful because there are already too many "events" associated with Halloween and I don't need to also leave work even earlier in order to stand around while 300 kids saunter by in costumes.

Our school does often try to force a "dress as a book character" or "dress as a vocab word" rule but people disregard it if their kid just wants to go as Moana or Black Panther or whatever.

lol did you even want kids? I think for most parents we actually enjoy being with our kids and seeing our kids. They’re not forced events, it’s parenting

[Anonymous]

We are at private that does Halloween in a big way, but I saw a kid walking to Langley High dressed up. I was so happy to see that!

[Anonymous]

MCPS Elementary Rockville Halloween Parade, Party, and Costumes. So glad for this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS: A always, B some years (depends on teachers), used to do C but stopped a couple years ago and I'm grateful because there are already too many "events" associated with Halloween and I don't need to also leave work even earlier in order to stand around while 300 kids saunter by in costumes.

Our school does often try to force a "dress as a book character" or "dress as a vocab word" rule but people disregard it if their kid just wants to go as Moana or Black Panther or whatever.

lol did you even want kids? I think for most parents we actually enjoy being with our kids and seeing our kids. They’re not forced events, it’s parenting

I love being a parent and enjoy planning my kids' costumes with them, taking them trick or treating, carving pumpkins, decorating our house, and handing out candy with them.

I do not enjoy standing around on the field at the school while every kid in school walks past. And where if I'm not there my kid will be bummed (because other parents are there). That's like the definition of a "forced event" and no, it's not "parenting."

[Anonymous]

Large FCPS elementary, HS-6 - school spirit week but explicitly not allowed Halloween, so F

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS: A always, B some years (depends on teachers), used to do C but stopped a couple years ago and I'm grateful because there are already too many "events" associated with Halloween and I don't need to also leave work even earlier in order to stand around while 300 kids saunter by in costumes.

Our school does often try to force a "dress as a book character" or "dress as a vocab word" rule but people disregard it if their kid just wants to go as Moana or Black Panther or whatever.

lol did you even want kids? I think for most parents we actually enjoy being with our kids and seeing our kids. They’re not forced events, it’s parenting

I love being a parent and enjoy planning my kids' costumes with them, taking them trick or treating, carving pumpkins, decorating our house, and handing out candy with them.

I do not enjoy standing around on the field at the school while every kid in school walks past. And where if I'm not there my kid will be bummed (because other parents are there). That's like the definition of a "forced event" and no, it's not "parenting."

I think Halloween parades are cute for preschoolers and after that they are dumb. It's weird to put kids on display like that and yeah if it's any more than like 40 kids it's going to take forEVER. Not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Select the answer that best applies:
My children's public school celebrates October 31 by:

A. Allowing children to wear Halloween costumes to school

B. Holding classroom Halloween parties with Halloween refreshments and Halloween themed games/crafts

C. Hosting a Halloween Parade or other "whole school celebration event" during the school day

D. Sponsoring a Halloween event outside of school hours

E. Celebrating "Fall Harvest" or "Dress Like a Book Character" day that coincidentally happens to be on October 31, classroom parties activities are things like "Carve A Fall-Themed Orange Gourd"

F. No celebration of any kind; school newsletter specifically states that kids should not come to
school in costume

G. Other (please specify)_____

FCPS: C (sort of), D (the PTA puts on a Fall Fest/Trunk or Treat in October), E, and a little of F.

There is a costume parade first thing in the morning on Halloween. However actual costumes are not allowed, only “dress like a book character.” Hence why I answered E and F. They do not usually do Halloween parties in the classroom, and especially not this year as they already have a 2 hour early release.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:E, we have “pumpkin day” do pumpkin activities and crafts. No costumes. School hosts a trunk or treat the Sat before Halloween.

Same plus the neighborhood has a big Halloween festival with costume parade the Saturday before Halloween. Not school sponsored but well publicized at the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS: A always, B some years (depends on teachers), used to do C but stopped a couple years ago and I'm grateful because there are already too many "events" associated with Halloween and I don't need to also leave work even earlier in order to stand around while 300 kids saunter by in costumes.

Our school does often try to force a "dress as a book character" or "dress as a vocab word" rule but people disregard it if their kid just wants to go as Moana or Black Panther or whatever.

lol did you even want kids? I think for most parents we actually enjoy being with our kids and seeing our kids. They’re not forced events, it’s parenting

I love being a parent and enjoy planning my kids' costumes with them, taking them trick or treating, carving pumpkins, decorating our house, and handing out candy with them.

I do not enjoy standing around on the field at the school while every kid in school walks past. And where if I'm not there my kid will be bummed (because other parents are there). That's like the definition of a "forced event" and no, it's not "parenting."

I think Halloween parades are cute for preschoolers and after that they are dumb. It's weird to put kids on display like that and yeah if it's any more than like 40 kids it's going to take forEVER. Not worth it.

Our school has everyone walk in the parade but the big kids walk their preschool-3rd grade pals in the parade and that part is what makes it tolerable.

[Anonymous]

Private (religious) school: F

It's even in the student handbook.

[Anonymous]

F, but nobody at bus stop wore anything.