Posted on 10/07/2022 9:24:08 AM PDT by george76
A Seattle-area elementary school again canceled Halloween celebrations. The principal called it “exclusionary” because not everyone celebrates the holiday.
After torturing children with absurd and unscientific COVID protocols, like socially-distanced lunch outside on the pavement, you’d think Principal John Simard of Brookside Elementary in Shoreline would want kids to have fun. No such luck. He emailed parents to explain that while some children may be looking forward to Halloween, he cannot allow any celebrations.
Wokeness killed another holiday celebration where kids could have fun. This move should be condemned, not celebrated as inclusive.
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School pretends Halloween is exclusionary..
There are some students that do not celebrate Halloween. And if they don’t celebrate, then no one can, the principal says.
“Many see Halloween as a fun candy-filled holiday,” Simard writes. “They enjoy the community-building benefits that a shared experience can bring. This may be true for you and your family; I can certainly say it is for mine. However, this is not the case for all. Halloween celebrations are exclusionary for students who come from certain cultural or religious backgrounds.”
Simard does not explain which cultural or religious backgrounds preclude the celebration of a secular holiday. He also doesn’t explain why “Crazy Hat Day,” where students wear crazy hats as they would costumes, is permissible. And although not every student celebrates Thanksgiving, Simard isn’t canceling that holiday’s week-long beak.
The principal also says he wants “this to be a place for all of our students and families.” But by banning Halloween, he’s expressly stating the school is not a place for students and families who celebrate Halloween.
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Neither the district spokesperson nor the principal responded to multiple requests for comment. But one parent, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH that he and his family are sick of the politically-motivated double standards.
“Birthdays are celebrated, there are cultural heritage months, Black Lives Matter curriculum and flags, pride celebration, along with all of the other religious holidays that are acknowledged,” the dad said. “Why is Halloween canceled? The school also has other days where dressing up silly, or in colors or in pajamas, is encouraged. I see zero difference in letting kids dress up in costumes.”
The dad called this “unfortunate.”
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Why do liberals hate everything?
Liberals are miserable. The only thing that appears to bring them joy is making everyone else as miserable as they are. Exclusionary? There isn’t a singular celebration, event, extracurricular, or sports team that isn’t “exclusionary.” Yet, the school allows those activities.
Not all students are capable of playing an instrument. Some families can’t afford it. Yet, does the school cancel the orchestra? No. They celebrate it. And not everyone has athletic skills or feels comfortable performing in public. So why does the school promote volleyball, soccer, hockey, and golf? In fact, golf is supposedly white supremacy in action — wouldn’t this exclude (and offend) black students?
You can make a number of silly arguments to claim anything is exclusionary. So why do they get rid of Halloween? It has everything to do with the destructive “equity” movement, which brings nothing but anger and division.
Left-wing educators have moved to cancel Halloween nationwide because they note that some students can’t afford nice costumes (or any at all). This is undoubtedly true. Perhaps, rather than using a low-income family to justify canceling a fun celebration, you could get creative, encourage costume donations, or offer alternative programming for the day. But heaven forbid we let kids have fun — a concept that I’m sure some educators will claim is white supremacy culture.
“It’s a truly sad example of what our society has turned into,” the Shoreline dad explained. “The need to cancel everything someone doesn’t like has become the breaking point of the fabric of our country. Cancel culture is just another form of censorship. Censorship is control. I can’t even fathom the fact that I have to write a reporter so my kid and his friends can dress up in their costumes for Halloween. It’s truly upsetting.”
I’m kind of surprised and glad they are hating on Halloween.
Not too long ago, this same type of idiots were trying to make that holiday take the place of Christmas, decorating outdoors, making outrageous costumes and being quite “preachy” about how great the day was. Then, I guess they changed their minds and decided that invading elementary schools in outrageous costumes was a lot more ANNOYING.
I’m happy that the gay community has decided to change course.
Isn’t this story from last year, or is another school now cancelling Halloween? At any rate, IMHO schools (and society in general) have vastly overemphasized Halloween in recent years, so I’m not necessarily opposed to pulling in the reins. On the other hand, the idea of giving immigrants a veto over our own holidays and celebrations is a bit worrisome. Where does it end?
Just another example of low-IQ, underachieving, semi-literate leftist administrators and teachers in America. No one with an Ed degree should ever be allowed close to children. They are the enemy and should be treated as such.
Easy solution.
Repeat after me, “Your corrupt asses are fired. Get the **** outta here. NOW!”
so much for that whole “assimilation” thing...
Or Christmas. (Some Christians don’t even celebrate it.)
Are they going to cancel Christmas, too?
Excellent point.
Sure as hell don’t. In fact I’d say 95% of all people don’t give a crap about it.
Yet schools are forced into it and the kids made to do homages to a dude because he’s the savior and martyr of demographics.
Not true.
Kids were big into it. It just didn’t really become the “trick or treat” walk-around to get candy as it did later. Probably partly to be “safer”.
My favorite is “Meet Me in St. Louis” with the Halloween act. Get the gist of c1900 activities.
They already do.
They call it “winter solstice” holidays, and try to lump everything into it, though they’re very different and not always coincident with that time (Moslem BS, cough cough).
Including many Orthodox Christians.
But a school can have a “Halloween” event that eliminates the demonic aspects that we find objectionable!!
I got a speeding ticket once from the automated traffic cameras in front of that school. The whole Lake Forest Park area is a snooty, liberal speed trap.
This is true. We loved Hallowe’en as kids; but it seems to me that adults didn’t get into it until later. (Though I think a lot of the old folks in my childhood neighborhood really liked having the kids come around. We made out like crazy on candy, and sometimes went out two nights.)
I would be very surprised if a Seattle School District superintendent is worried about the concerns of a small subset of conservative evangelical Christians.
He probably thinks that Halloween mocks transsexuals. Halloween is all about dressing up and pretending to be someone you're not. Just like a boy wearing a dress, having his privates whacked off, and then claiming to be a girl.
Not a big fan of Halloween, its my least favorite holiday where grown men and women act very dumb. That being said, this principal is stupid.
It’s probably not because of offense to Christians as much as muslims.
What doesn’t offend Muslims?
If you really think about it, “Celebrate” doesn’t apply.
If you really think about it, “Celebrate” doesn’t apply.
Because the day before All Saints’ Day (November 1) celebrates souls escaping from the grave for one night, it is not something that should be celebrated. It makes light of the idea that the evil of evil spirits lives on after them.
For that reason, no one should celebrate it.
It’s more than just one group liking to celebrate it against another group not liking to celebrate it. The group that doesn’t like to celebrate it believes it actually unleashes evil.
OK, this won’t be a popular point of view here, but I do believe it celebrates evil and so do many other people. It’s far from a black-and-orange Saint Patrick’s Day.
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