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Round Rock petition to cancel school the day after Halloween earns nearly 14,000 signatures
kvue ^ | Oct. 30, 2019 | Drew Knight

Posted on 10/30/2019 9:44:24 AM PDT by bgill

To many youngsters, Halloween is one of the best times of the year. Who wants to worry about going to school the next day when you could be staying home eating candy?

That seems to be the sentiment of many students in Round Rock ISD.

According to Change.org, a petition to get their district to cancel the day after Halloween has gained nearly 14,000 signature, as of Wednesday morning. Students are almost at their goal of 15,000 signatures.

(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: education; halloween; leander; roundrock; texas
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I thought today's loony parents forbid their kids from celebrating Halloween. Now, they're sending them out until after bedtime so they have an excuse to skip school in case they might learn something on Friday.
1 posted on 10/30/2019 9:44:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Snowflakes.

When I was a child, I went trick or treating till way after bedtime. Still got up in time for school the next day.


2 posted on 10/30/2019 9:48:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Not to worry. Adults will fix the situation my moving Halloween to the last Saturday in October. While I intended this to be sarcasm, it wouldn’t surprise me to see it happen.


3 posted on 10/30/2019 9:50:21 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: bgill

Lock and garage all cars and trucks


4 posted on 10/30/2019 9:51:01 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: bgill

Headline from the future!
“Students by an overwhelming majority (92%!) sign petition to cancel school outright! Why this may not be a bad idea!”


5 posted on 10/30/2019 9:52:53 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: bgill

SHOCK!!!!....Most school kids will sign ANY petition for ANY reason, that will cancel a day of school.
This has always been so, even before the internet.


6 posted on 10/30/2019 9:53:25 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: bgill

Texas. This is the same district that repudiated its mascot, Redskins, last year.

There is a Round Rock school district in AZ, all Navajo kids. Their HS Mascot? Redskins.


7 posted on 10/30/2019 9:54:52 AM PDT by Migraine
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Students petitioning for a day off? Whda thunk?
8 posted on 10/30/2019 10:06:45 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Heck, the next day was trading day!


9 posted on 10/30/2019 10:08:31 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I went trick or treating till way after bedtime.


One of the pleasures or liabilities of aging is that one gets to look back at the “good old days”. I grew up in a city in SoCal. Trick-or-Treat was strictly for kids. Only toddlers would have their parents in tow. By the time you were 8, you went with your friends. You got home-made cookies and an occasional apple and tons of candy. Nobody was trying to poison kids and no parent was going to drive you to the rich part of town to get nicer stuff. It was better then (if you don’t count the polio and stuff like that).


10 posted on 10/30/2019 10:15:30 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: CatOwner

There was a Change.org petition last year trying to get it changed to the last Saturday of October.


11 posted on 10/30/2019 10:22:30 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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I have decided that we will CLOSE our Halloween down at 8pm. We’ll just shut the lights off, and retire to the back of the house. Plud, I really do NOT like OLDER kids trick or treating. What do you all think is the Maximum age for a tricker beggar...er...treater?


12 posted on 10/30/2019 10:24:18 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office.)
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A strange thing I noticed in my new neighborhood.

As I discovered that most of the neighbors are from India, they put up Diwali Lights, instead of Halloween lights.

I must say, I prefer the Diwali Lights.


13 posted on 10/30/2019 10:25:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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As long as a you get a vindaloo, papadums & a lager you’ll be fine!


14 posted on 10/30/2019 10:30:06 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dfwgator

Well my neighbor put up her Christmas tree a week or so ago (She always does...as Evangelical Christians who prosyletize around the world I don’t think they’re much into Halloween, plus she loves Christmas.)


15 posted on 10/30/2019 10:31:50 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

When I was a child I always got the day after Halloween off from school.

I attended a Catholic grade school. The day after Halloween is All Saints Day, a holy day of obligation. The school was closed.


16 posted on 10/30/2019 10:53:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: bgill

Dentists and Endocrinologists are all-a-twitter over the increase in cavities and diabetes.


17 posted on 10/30/2019 11:18:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bgill

Hmm...I thought sugar and additives were bad and the latest trend was to let kids have about 5 pieces and throw the rest out. Round Rock parents need to get woke.


18 posted on 10/30/2019 11:19:29 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: lee martell

Yup! Just ask Greta Thunberg. She gets full participation on her Friday strikes for climate change.


19 posted on 10/30/2019 11:21:19 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: bgill

I’m sure the teachers are for it.

I’ve heard that the kids are miserable to work with the day after Halloween. All that candy.


20 posted on 10/30/2019 11:46:28 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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