Posted on 10/01/2019 8:01:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
There will be no candy or costumes on Halloween at an elementary school in Evanston this year.
Lincoln Elementary School, located at 910 Forest Avenue, has canceled its Halloween celebration during the school day.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the school said it wants to be inclusive of all students and avoid celebrating a cultural holiday during the school day that some students don't celebrate because of religious reasons.
"While we recognize that Halloween is a fun tradition for many families, it is not a holiday that is celebrated by all members of our school community and for various reasons. There are also inequities in how we have traditionally observed the holiday as part of our school day. Our goal at Lincoln is to provide space and opportunities for all students to be part of the community — not to create an environment that may feel exclusive or unwelcoming to any child,” said Michelle Cooney, Lincoln’s school principal
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Are they gonna cancel Christmas next?
Of course.
Only Eid al-Adha and Kwanzaa will be celebrated...
Life among the kufir.
When you have eliminated everything that might be offensive to segments of the community, eventually you have no community.
No one gets to have fun anymore.
Raising a bunch of little candy asses.
Our school cancelled Halloween carnival back in 1957 due to the Polio scare. Started it up again only in 1970.
I actually agree with this school.
It is not their job to celebrate holidays during the school day. That is not what we want to pay them for.
It is the parent’s job to celebrate a holiday and teach their children about the holidays.
Maybe they’ll celebrate All Saints Day. Right.
We never had Halloween at school growing up.
Halloween was after school, after dinner.
Since when is Halloween a cultural holiday? Not that I would celebrate it.
It is not their job to celebrate holidays during the school day. That is not what we want to pay them for.
I got news for you. They don’t do what they are paid for. Indoctrination and brain washing is not education.
I agree with you for many “holidays” ... but I don’t even consider Halloween a holiday at all. It’s a stupid fad that has turned into the second largest shopping season in the U.S.
Homework is against my religion.
That's the way it was with us. Although in my eighth-grade English class we read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and listened to Basil Rathbone narrate Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" on a long-playing disc, the school didn't do much to celebrate Halloween.
When we were in grade school, we observed the occasion by trick-or-treating and when we got older, we rigged up devices such as flying ghosts to scare the trick-or-treaters who approached our home.
I’ve heard a lot of Protestants on this site condemn both Halloween and Easter as being not only of pagan origin but of being pagan in their current expression.
It is not their job to celebrate holidays during the school day.
Schools doing little things like costume contests and parties just added to the kids’ enjoyment. Parents and teachers enjoyed it as well. Taking things like this out of the schools make them even more dreary than they are.
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