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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do find the aversion and censoring of Halloween in MCPS elementary schools to be very odd. Getting to dress up for the day and having Halloween classroom parties was a fantastic experience for me as a kid.[/quote]

Same!  And I grew up poor, so it’s not like I always had a ‘cool’ costume.  It was whatever I could get my mom to help me put together.

Wish my kid’s ES allowed Halloween.  But they are not allowed to even read books about it.  Let along have a Halloween parade.  [/quote]
May this be the worst thing that ever happens to your child.[/quote]

Is that your argument?  Things could be worse for my kid, so I can’t express my disappointment that our ES has banned any mention of Halloween during school?  Nah, sorry, it doesn’t work that way.  [/quote]

Expressing disappointment: [i]I have fond memories about Halloween in school, so I am sad that my kid won't have that. Oh well. I'm looking forward to trick-or-treating tonight![/i]

Is that what you're saying?[/quote]

+1
I have a ton of cute/fond memories of Christmastime at school where our school PTA would set up a Santa’s Secret Shop in the cafeteria and we could buy inexpensive trinkets for members of our family (junky stuff ranging from 25 cents to $5–kind of like things you might find in the oriental trading catalog) And then the moms would gift wrap it for us. It was such fun to pick out a gift to give that was just from me! 
As an adult, of course I realize now that there were probably a few kids in the school who didn’t celebrate Christmas (it was the Midwest) who might have felt excluded by this tradition, so it’s not a terrible thing that it no longer exists. But yes, it’s a fond memory for me that I wish my kids had.
(We also watched the Charlie Brown Christmas episode IN SCHOOL the morning of the Christmas party for at least three years in a row. And that one is very religious. Public school. Times have definitely changed.)[/quote]

OMG memory unlocked! I had forgotten about having a smilier memory mostly because it's not really done anymore. [/quote]

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