Some fundamentalist Christians oppose Halloween as a celebration of evil. This school district has put itself in a position of being accused of violating the supposed 'separation of church and state' clause (which, like goblins, also doesn't exist).
Careful what you say!
The Goblins have already contacted the ACLU for your slander of saying that they don't exist!
I, for one, do and never allowed my daughter to take part. What we did instead was take the day off and spend it together. Some of our best memories are from these days. Then one year, I received a letter from the district saying that too many parents were doing that and our children would not receive an "excused" absence and the children could sit together in a study hall while the rest of the school partied and paraded. Incensed, I wrote them a letter and said that although I had disapproved of what they were doing, I had never once tried to stop the other children from doing what they wanted to do. But the school had better not try and force me to put my child into study hall all day. If they continued, I would have to take action that would affect all the children. I didn't hear anything more. We continued our practice and they continued theirs. It just never occurred to me that a school would discontinue the practice out of respect for witches. Yuck! What is becoming of our nation?
Goblins don't exist?! Damn. (Disappointingly putting away +5 vorpal sword...)
Do too! They are all in my computer!