Posted on 10/21/2004 10:26:22 AM PDT by DaveTesla
A letter sent home to parents Wednesday said there will
be no observance of Halloween in any of the district's
schools.
"We really want to make sure we're using all of our
time in the best interest of our students," Puyallup
School District spokeswoman Karen Hansen said.
The superintendent made the decision for three primary
reasons, Hansen said. First, Halloween parties and
parades waste valuable classroom time. Second, some
families can't afford costumes and the celebrations
thus can create embarrassment for children.
Both of those reasons seemed sensible to the parents
who spoke to ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle. But
the district's third reason left some Puyallup parents
shaking their heads.
A Washington state school district is canceling its
annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has
some parents baffled.
"Let them have their 30 minutes of dressing goofy and
having candy," Silas Macon, a father of two school-age
girls, said Wednesday outside Maplewood Elementary
School after learning that the grade-school tradition
of a party and parade in costume during the last half-
our of class before Halloween night won't happen this
year in the district.
The district said Halloween celebrations and children
dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to
real witches.
"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not
respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we
want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.
"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not
respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we
want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.
Ping
not to mention what it says to pumpkins
Oh brother.
Ping. Unbelievable.
Oh yeah? Well, I say witches are disrespectful to Christianity. How about that?
Halloween is evil because carving a pumpkin makes me want to carve someone's face.
So, does that mean the school won't mind if some "Wiccans" do some animal sacrifices on their lawn?
Oh wait, that's the Haitian voo-doo thing...well hey, that's a religion too isn't it?
How incredibly outrageous. I hope that school official gets creamed.
Now this is just silly.
So the school hierarchy believe in witches? I sure want them teaching my kids...not.
I also think that Halloween is incredibly insensitive to zombies, werewolves, and mummies. We should really be more careful. They have feelings too.
The last two paras in this piece are remarkable.
Gee. Finally. Tolerance for witches. What a concept.
Who are these nuts? Why are they teaching children?
That's a brilliant way to wave the flag of fundamentalist liberalism around right before an election.
I work with someone whose daughter got married in a Wiccan church. I kid you not. We snicker about that and I think the co-worker is also Wiccan. I can't believe that this sort of thing goes on in the conservative midwestern city where I work.
I'm going to have to print this out for the next time some lib mentions some hardcore evangelical church going off on Halloween.
How true. There simply isn't enough time in the school day to demonstrate the proper use of condoms to school children.
Oh for cryin' out freaking loud.
I'm glad I'm 44 years old and won't live to see what a vomitous pit of insanity this nation will be in 100 years.
hysterical laughter
Someone needs to tell Hillary that everything in this world is NOT about HER!
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