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Anonymous wrote:Wow what lazy parents that find classroom parties and parades a pain… it’s Halloween! Didn’t you have a childhood?

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.

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?

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.

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."

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?"

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Just flagging that this is the MCPS schools board. The thing we are talking about is, definitionally, Halloween as it's celebrated at MCPS schools. If you would like to talk about Halloween as it will be celebrated outside of MCPS schools, go find another board.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

I'm so glad you clarified that for the zillionth time (and it's good that you've been repeatedly making this point on every thread about halloween, wouldn't want anyone to miss out on this insight )

You know you’re responding to more than one person making this (very obvious, but very clearly confusing to hysterical moms screaming OMG THEY CANCELLED HALLOWEEEEEEN) point, right?

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Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

I'm so glad you clarified that for the zillionth time (and it's good that you've been repeatedly making this point on every thread about halloween, wouldn't want anyone to miss out on this insight )

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

Why is it ridiculous?

At six, my kid would have picked the rescue that we got our dog from, or the butterfly garden because he likes to run around there. It's totally appropriate for 6 year olds to know that things they value are funded by donations.

At 6, most kids don't know about politics and my kid wouldn't have known about donations or causes as its not appropriate for 6 year old. The causes thing is dumb. Dress your kid in halloween colors or get a halloween shirt at target or children's place and be done with it.

Ok, but there are no 6 year olds at Chevy Chase - It is a 3-5 grade school with a CES. Most kids are going to understand the concept of a cause.

FWIW, Ms Smith has always promoted a charity every year at school. One year it was some heart thing, another year cancer. Kids are encouraged to raise money for the cause and some very wealthy parents send in hefty checks.

Halloween parade dressed as your cause is another variation of this, minus the gross hefty checks in school.

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

It’s going to be fun times when larlo shows up in a t shirt with a picture of an aborted fetus.

I'm sending Larla to school in a t shirt with a hammer and sickle on it. Let's see how harmonious the day goes!

I would find this amusing.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

I'm so glad you clarified that for the zillionth time (and it's good that you've been repeatedly making this point on every thread about halloween, wouldn't want anyone to miss out on this insight )

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

Why is it ridiculous?

At six, my kid would have picked the rescue that we got our dog from, or the butterfly garden because he likes to run around there. It's totally appropriate for 6 year olds to know that things they value are funded by donations.

At 6, most kids don't know about politics and my kid wouldn't have known about donations or causes as its not appropriate for 6 year old. The causes thing is dumb. Dress your kid in halloween colors or get a halloween shirt at target or children's place and be done with it.

Ok, but there are no 6 year olds at Chevy Chase - It is a 3-5 grade school with a CES. Most kids are going to understand the concept of a cause.

FWIW, Ms Smith has always promoted a charity every year at school. One year it was some heart thing, another year cancer. Kids are encouraged to raise money for the cause and some very wealthy parents send in hefty checks.

Halloween parade dressed as your cause is another variation of this, minus the gross hefty checks in school.

What are you talking about? There is no Halloween parade. She specifically said that she will not allow any Halloween activities at school.

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

Why is it ridiculous?

At six, my kid would have picked the rescue that we got our dog from, or the butterfly garden because he likes to run around there. It's totally appropriate for 6 year olds to know that things they value are funded by donations.

At 6, most kids don't know about politics and my kid wouldn't have known about donations or causes as its not appropriate for 6 year old. The causes thing is dumb. Dress your kid in halloween colors or get a halloween shirt at target or children's place and be done with it.

Ok, but there are no 6 year olds at Chevy Chase - It is a 3-5 grade school with a CES. Most kids are going to understand the concept of a cause.

FWIW, Ms Smith has always promoted a charity every year at school. One year it was some heart thing, another year cancer. Kids are encouraged to raise money for the cause and some very wealthy parents send in hefty checks.

Halloween parade dressed as your cause is another variation of this, minus the gross hefty checks in school.

Anonymous wrote:No one has "cancelled Halloween." Halloween will go on as planned the evening of the 31st.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

It’s going to be fun times when larlo shows up in a t shirt with a picture of an aborted fetus.

I'm sending Larla to school in a t shirt with a hammer and sickle on it. Let's see how harmonious the day goes!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I disagree with doing the political causes thing at school and i also disagree with doing halloween at school. Leave that for after.

Especially in elementary school. That’s ridiculous.

Six year olds should ‘pick a cause’? Not appropriate.

Fine if they want to do this in MS.

Why is it ridiculous?

At six, my kid would have picked the rescue that we got our dog from, or the butterfly garden because he likes to run around there. It's totally appropriate for 6 year olds to know that things they value are funded by donations.

At 6, most kids don't know about politics and my kid wouldn't have known about donations or causes as its not appropriate for 6 year old. The causes thing is dumb. Dress your kid in halloween colors or get a halloween shirt at target or children's place and be done with it.