Halloween

Dirtie_Frank said:

When my oldest daughter started school, the entire school had a big Halloween celebration. A parade, party, the whole nine yards. This school was in NJ.. For the past two years we have been back home in MD and the schools do not celebrate Halloween, they call it a fall festival and let kids dress up as characters from a book. Is this because Halloween is All Hallows Eve, which is a religious day? I think the way kids celebrate Halloween is a bit different now. Why does the PC nonsense have to take the fun out of everything? There were some kids that could not celebrate because of religious view, but should all the kids have to not celebrate now? There is very little if any link to a religious day for the kids. Why can't we just let them dress up and use their imaginations and celebrate in school?

because adults can be such assholes. It's absurd to me that anyone thinks Halloween is somehow religious. it's about kids having fun. period. frankly i don't even really like it when adults have Halloween parties as it's a day for kids and not about adults.

Not sure if this is PC nonsense or Bible Belt nonsense, Dirty_Frank. It was always a good time for kids and parents alike when I was a kid. It should still be fun for kids who want to participate.

Because trick or treating is not as safe as it was back then, our town holds a Halloween event event downtown. It's described on the cities events web page:

OCTOBER 31, 2015: Trick or Treat on Main Street
4PM – 6PM in Historic downtown Placerville. Main Street merchants hand out candy (while supplies last) to trick-or-treaters for this great family event. There will be a DJ at the Bell Tower and a Costume Contest (sponsored by the 20-30 Club) at 6PM. Town Hall will also host a Carnival for children 10 and under (sponsored by The Placerville Lions Club). For info call (530 672-3436).

It's a great time and we've never had any PC or religious complaints. We get a huge crowd of both locals and out-of-town folks and the costumes are a gas! Kids love it.

Anyone have a problem with Halloween should just stay home and pout and leave the fun to the rest of us!

Eh Samhain is a pagan festival, I should know, we invented it

Dirtie_Frank said:

I just do not understand why they need to take away the name Halloween. It just makes no sense. I have seen this in the news from other areas and they say it is because some kids do no celebrate so the school will not celebrate either. I am going to do a little digging.

Pretty much

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Milford-schools-ban-Halloween-6565263.php

Dirtie_Frank said:

When my oldest daughter started school, the entire school had a big Halloween celebration. A parade, party, the whole nine yards. This school was in NJ.. For the past two years we have been back home in MD and the schools do not celebrate Halloween, they call it a fall festival and let kids dress up as characters from a book. Is this because Halloween is All Hallows Eve, which is a religious day?

I'd say it's because whoever is making the decisions is a fucking idiot. Simple as that. Seriously.... it's a real shame that more people can't afford private schools, so that parents can choose to place their kids in a school that doesn't do idiotic things like this.

Enkidu said:

Why why? This PC stuff makes me crazy. There's a big hoo-haw in my hometown in Virginia now because people are objecting to the "Christmas" parade. It's. A. Parade. At Christmas. Will Thanksgiving be the next holiday to go away?

Argh.

Hoo-haw? In Virginia no less!

PJ_Soul said:

Enkidu said:

Why why? This PC stuff makes me crazy. There's a big hoo-haw in my hometown in Virginia now because people are objecting to the "Christmas" parade. It's. A. Parade. At Christmas. Will Thanksgiving be the next holiday to go away?

Argh.

Hoo-haw? In Virginia no less!

You can't take the south out of the girl. (Or something like that.)

brianlux said:

Not sure if this is PC nonsense or Bible Belt nonsense, Dirty_Frank. It was always a good time for kids and parents alike when I was a kid. It should still be fun for kids who want to participate.

Because trick or treating is not as safe as it was back then, our town holds a Halloween event event downtown. It's described on the cities events web page:

OCTOBER 31, 2015: Trick or Treat on Main Street
4PM – 6PM in Historic downtown Placerville. Main Street merchants hand out candy (while supplies last) to trick-or-treaters for this great family event. There will be a DJ at the Bell Tower and a Costume Contest (sponsored by the 20-30 Club) at 6PM. Town Hall will also host a Carnival for children 10 and under (sponsored by The Placerville Lions Club). For info call (530 672-3436).

It's a great time and we've never had any PC or religious complaints. We get a huge crowd of both locals and out-of-town folks and the costumes are a gas! Kids love it.

Anyone have a problem with Halloween should just stay home and pout and leave the fun to the rest of us!

What's not "safe" about Halloween now a days in your town?

I want kids banging on my door and being excited about the candy I hand out and I want them to complain about the people who handed out an apple, lol.

I wonder how many schools are banning All Hallows Eve?

Enkidu said:

Why why? This PC stuff makes me crazy. There's a big hoo-haw in my hometown in Virginia now because people are objecting to the "Christmas" parade. It's. A. Parade. At Christmas. Will Thanksgiving be the next holiday to go away?

Argh.

Thanksgiving was already taken away from us when stores moved black friday Christmas sales to dinner hours on Thanksgiving. Of course this was our own greed that took that one.

We are lucky my kids school still lets them have a halloween parade and party.