Posted on 10/13/2021 6:07:31 AM PDT by MAGA2017
A Seattle elementary school canceled Halloween activities over concerns about student equity and inclusion. Specifically, Seattle Public Schools says Black males do not celebrate and, more generally, students of color feel marginalized by the holiday. One parent, however, thinks this is an “exercise in affluent white vanity that is wokeism.”
Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary typically hosts Halloween festivities each year. They include a “Pumpkin Parade” where students wear costumes if they choose. But the school administration changed its focus to “foundational beliefs around equity for our students and families,” and, consequently, they’re canceling Halloween.
This year the only thing spooky and creepy is the school’s commitment to wokeness. What could be more equitable than having strangers give you free candy? Not to the school’s Racial Equity Team that decided with staff to gut Halloween.
The school delivered the ghoulish news in an October 8 newsletter to parents.
“As a school with foundational beliefs around equity for our students and families, we are moving away from our traditional ‘Pumpkin Parade’ event and requesting that students do not come to school in costumes,” the newsletter reads.
Even though the news will disappoint students, the newsletter says, the decision is meant to show respect for all B.F. Day students.
"Halloween events create a situation where some students must be excluded for their beliefs, financial status, or life experience. Costume parties often become an uncomfortable event for many children, and they distract students and staff from learning. Large events create changes in schedules with loud noise levels and crowds. Some students experience over stimulation, while others must deal with complex feelings of exclusion. It’s uncomfortable and upsetting for kids."
Nothing says equity quite like making every student miss out on the fun because some administrator invented a scenario where students feel excluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
I remember Detroit being all but destroyed by fires on the nights before Halloween.....
Same here. We live in a golf course community and folks from “outside” park in the club parking lot and then get on trailers that were brought in by their family members. They hayride around the whole neighborhood and have a really good time. We give out at least 5,000 pieces of candy every year and we love every minute of it.
Good point—blacks celebrate Halloween just like everybody else.
Where do the woke come up with this stuff?
We live in a close in suburb. A number of church vans full of kids show up every year.
“Pommies” is Australian slang for English.
money had nothing to do with our fun......
gee so certain males don't participate....too freaking bad....
One parent, however, thinks this is an “exercise in affluent white vanity that is wokeism.”
This related topic looks like a winner, until you realize that this diagnosis will be applied (by media shills) to "conspiracy theorists" and "insurrectionists".
I see.
Those fun loving Australians!
Right there next to Germany.
Skiing on the Alps.
Wearing lederhosen.
The left ruins everything for everyone.
"Equity" (as opposed to "equality"): the belief that no member of a "privileged" group should have or enjoy anything which members of "marginalized" groups don't have or enjoy.
Just like communism doesn't produce wealth, but merely makes people all poor and miserable (unless you are in the Party)
I taught for 32 years and found an ethnic group who did not participate in Halloween Party. The kids who were Jehovah Witnesses didn’t take part. They would go to library.
Just try to cancel Kwanza because white kids don’t celebrate.
That's ridiculous. I've lived in both cities and suburbs, and the majority of trick or treaters in the North East are POC. Trick or treat bags are one of the major food sources for the baby mamas who take their kids to the "nice" neighborhood for better pickings.
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