So let them stay home.
What a maroon!
Most school officials are wimps and cowards. On the other hand, if a handful of hyper-sensitive God-haters can cancel Christmas parties at school, I suppose it's poetic justice that Satan's favorite holiday gets banned too.
No piggy banks - they offend me.
No Christmas decorations - they offend me.
No Halloween decorations - they offend me.
No girly pictures - they offend me.
No fur, no red meat, no smoking, no jokes, no fun of any kind.
People who get offended offend me.
If the teachers really wanted more time for teaching, they would cancel the "in-service" days during the school year, which adds up to tremendous babysitting costs for working parents, and take those classes in the summer, when they are working full-time, second summer jobs.
This, BTW, is the same school system where parents and the media were thrown out of a high-school assembly promoting homosexuality. The parents were told they had no right to know who was speaking to their children or what they were saying.
"The school's principal said yesterday he acceded to the complaints of a handful of parents who said that because the school's traditional Halloween celebrations offended their religious beliefs, they would not send their children to school if the revelry continued this year."
The parents can send their kids to school to get "hammered" by all of the other kids because their stupid parents got their Halloween party cancelled.
Their badge of office is the weathervane.
Then these idiots can keep their kids home from school.
"Not everyone is going to agree with the decision, and I really understand that," said principal David Castelline, "but to heck with majority rule, if even one person is offended by something, that outweighs tradition and the feelings of the majority," adding as an afterthought, "You might as well stuff your turkey now, there will be no thanks given around here."
The Grinch is coming. Prepare yourselves.
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It's one thing for some hyper-minority religion like Wicca, or whoever it is that's being offended, to grouse at adults for having Nativity scenes and the like, but how can they ruin other children's fun on what has become a completely secular holiday to most people? They can keep their kids home, or go chant in the forest after school, or whatever. The kids don't understand their parents' radical lefty religious and political beliefs; they just get picked on as the kids whose parents "cancelled Halloween".
NJ also:
Hammonton Schools Cancel Halloween
Pre-K Through First Grade Can No Longer Wear Costumes To School
POSTED: 12:09 pm EDT October 21, 2005
UPDATED: 12:29 pm EDT October 21, 2005
HAMMONTON, N.J. -- There is a costume controversy at a South Jersey school.
Officials have canceled the annual Halloween parade and will not allow costumes. Now, parents are asking the school board to step in and bring back a hallowed tradition.
The Hamilton School district has done away with Halloween costumes and parades in some of the elementary schools, and now they're trying it in pre-K through first grade.
"It's pretty upsetting. The kids really enjoy that," one woman told the school board.
"Sad because they took it away," said one boy.
"I really want them to do it," said another boy.
The district decided to do away with scary outfits and the traditional procession because they were worried about too many unidentified family members descending on the school.
"It became hazardous to the safety of the children that we couldn't keep control and know exactly every child that was being taken off the site," said Mary Lou DiFrancisco Hammonton School District superintendent.
"They're celebrating Halloween. Let them be kids," said one mother.
When the parents found out, some showed up at the school district meeting with their children in costume.
"Last year I had it and this year I don't and that's not fair, is it?" said Liam Hunter, who came to the meeting in costume.
"It just doesn't make a lot of sense. There's a lot of disappointed people," a man testified before the school board.
The school district said that it is creating black and orange day, instead, for pre-K through first-graders, but many parents believe the school is erasing Halloween because of alleged satanic undertones.
"Nothing could be farther from the truth," said Loretta Rehmann, the Hammonton School Board president. "What they saw last year is that it is a safety issue."
In the end, the school board said it is the superintendent's decision and the board said it would not overturn that decision.
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Part of it is the moronic, sensationalization of EVERYTHING by the lunes in the media. And the need for each and every "minority" to throw their weight around by oppressing the majority for the power rush.
This garbage has to stop.
I look forward to the day when a "handful of complainers" are told that they may complain and they may keep their kids from school but the celebration will continue. And I hope this occurs for every holiday supported by the majority. Halloween is really just a fun day, but the school assembly should all Christmas carols in December and Easter egg decoration in the spring. And the kids who stay home can learn from the experience too.
