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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow what lazy parents that find classroom parties and parades a pain… it’s Halloween! Didn’t you have a childhood?[/quote]

yeah - we did.  we celebrated halloween by trick or treating.  we didn't have a classroom party or a parade.  somehow both the country and we survived.[/quote]

oh ffs. No one is saying that anyone will "not survive." Is survival your standard, though? If so that's a pretty low bar--and pretty sad. Since when is it bad to love something, be passionate about it and sentimental even? Is this a race to the bottom in terms of who can care less and have less enthusiasm? Down with joy! Let's be cynical and apathetic and accuse anyone who feels deeply about anything of having a moral panic.

I know your drill, and it's pathetic. I have to ask, is sitting around dcurbanmom sniping at people who have the nerve to care about stuff actually fun for you?

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PP, you are welcome to be passionate about Halloween parades in public schools, if you want, and to be sad if there isn't one. Similarly, other people are welcome to be indifferent to Halloween parades in public schools, or even to be happy that the school is not having them.

Regardless, the good news is that Chevy Chase ES is NOT canceling Halloween. Take your kids out on October 31 and celebrate to your heart's content.[/quote]

You're missing the point - the "everyone survived" poster isn't being indifferent, or even happy--"indifferent" would presumably mean not posting, "happy" would typically result in explaining why they feel happy about this-- they're using a straw man to mock someone ELSE for caring. Imagine you posted about something you cared about. (If indeed you care about something.)  If you expressed your feeling earnestly, would it be constructive for me to respond by saying, "well, that's, dumb, people will survive just fine without [chocolate chip cookies/girl scouts/exercise/church/HBO], so you shouldn't bother taking up oxygen by telling us about it."[/quote]

Imagine someone posted something like "Wow what lazy parents that find classroom parties and parades a pain… it’s Halloween! Didn’t you have a childhood?"[/quote]

You're still missing the point, that is a perfect civil and respectful comment to make to un-American heathen like yourself.[/quote]

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