Well... Isn't THAT special!
Posted on 10/22/2004 4:53:03 AM PDT by HighWheeler
POSTED: 12:46 pm EDT October 21, 2004
PUYALLUP, Wash. -- There will be no Halloween parties at one school district in Washington state.
Puyallup School District spokeswoman Karen Hansen said school officials have been reviewing the Halloween tradition and decided that time could be better spent.
According to a Seattle TV station, Hanson said there were three reasons that the parties will be canceled. The first reason was that Halloween parties and parades waste valuable classroom time. The second reason was that some families can't afford costumes. The third reason is that it may offend real witches.
She said schools have had complaints from followers of the Wiccan religion who are offended at the way Halloween is celebrated. Hansen said schools are teaching students to be respectful and take account of the discomfort felt by others.
Hanson said members of the Wiccan religion did not ask the school district to cancel the Halloween events. But she said they have expressed displeasure with such images as witches with pointy noses and witches flying on broomsticks.
She said that witches with pointy noses are not "respective symbols of the Wiccan religion" and that their district wants to be respectful of that.
ANy students who show up in a costume might be sent home.
The school district has the following reminder on its Web site:
HALLOWEEN IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Remember, Halloween masks, makeup and costumes ARE NOT ALLOWED at any time on campus.
The decision has angered many parents. Some plan to protest at a school board meeting this Monday. The mother of one second-grader says she has one very disappointed little girl. Tonya Reynolds said everyone is so worried about being "politically correct."
Killjoy alert!
The obligatory pagan-bashing by fundamentalist evangelical FReepers shall commence in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1.
Oh cool it. Don't think that this isn't an indication of the decay of our society, either, sport. They couldn't give a flyin' fiddler's damn about how Christians feel, but they sure as HELL don't want to offend "real witches".
What a bunch of sick f**kers.
And the Boston Globe thinks we're stupid !?
"I'll get you, my pretty.....and your little dog too....."
When I was a youngster, we had the Halloween parties AFTER school.
Hillary was Pleased. Very Pleased.
Well of COURSE not. Would you want to be changed into a toad?
Why wouldn't she be, she's the head witch
I think we need a good witch duck.
Ah! The enlightened left coast.
What you won't see in the MSM is that reporters and talk radio hosts also interviewed the Wiccan/Pagan's who also expressed shock at the decision and said that they weren't offended at all.
I live in this once proud little town. Sadly, once they found out the housing market and taxation was cheaper than their own self inflicted damage they heaped on their pathetic lives, the liberal scum migrated down from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Seattle and infected our way of life here. The only saving grace we have is Fort Lewis and McChord AFB nearby with right thinking decent families keeping the balance. But this doesn't surprise me at all.
Unafraid of offending Christians...the celebration of Christmas will be changed to Winter Solstice or Kwanza
and
Easter will not celebrate the resurection of Jesus but instead a pagan Spring Equinox or Wiccan 'Mother Earth International Woman's Egg day...
In the ACLUs New World AmeriKa...Christians are gotten rid of and every false religion is a go
The America of our founders be damned...the Marxists have found many allies among pagans.
imo
I hear they turned one guy into a newt.
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