Posted on 10/14/2017 7:17:01 AM PDT by markomalley
On one level, an elementary school banning Halloween costumes or any mention of Halloween isn't news. The childhood ritual - like most American childhood rituals - fell victim to the purveyors of political correctness years ago.
But in this case, the school in question - Hillcrest Elementary School - had allowed Halloween costumes to be worn by kids during their annual Fall Parade. Until this year, that is.
Check out the school's reasoning that goes far beyond the "non inclusive" nature of Halloween.
Officials at Hillcrest Elementary School in Waukesha took references to Halloween out of its annual Fall Festival years ago, but that apparently didn’t go far enough this year, a local NBC affiliate reported. Now students are being told they can’t participate in the tradition of wearing their Halloween costumes to the event, because some children were left out.
“We want to be inclusive of all families including those families who don’t celebrate Halloween or find purchasing a costume a hardship,” the school said in a newsletter to parents last week, NBC reported. “Also, there have been behavior and time management concerns related changing into and out of costumes.”
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I believe you meant 'homeless person'. g
I never had a costume, Mom always threw something together.
Eyebrow pencil, lipstick, old tee shirt, 3 ft pole with bandana or old pillowcase tied to one end.
Good to go.
Oh, puleeze. How much of a financial hardship is it for mama to use some of her makeup on the kid to make a cat face or a hobo or whatever? How much does it cost to use an old sheet for a mummy or ghost costume? Goodwill and thrift stores have costumes for less than $5. Yard sales have them for 50 cents. Our kids had yard sale clothes all the way up until high school. I could dress them for $20 a year and they were some of the best dressed in school.
First, they came for the maypoles.....
Good grief. Let them dress up at home and wear their costumes all day. What, the school can't afford to have one free day away from teaching to the state tests?
At our kids’ school, the nurse’s office had extra clothes. I would donate items and even prom dresses. There’s no reason other special event items can’t be available if they’re worried about lazy parents.
The Saudi and other Muslims at my children’s elementary always dressed up for what the school called the Book Character parade. It is held around Halloween. The children dress up like a character in a book. They bring the book to school. There is a big parade later in the day. Parents show up. It is basically a wasted day for instruction. However, it brings parents to school and places an emphasis on reading and imagination. The drum corps from the area high school leads the parade. The teachers and administrators dress up as well. It really is a lot of fun. And like I said, even the Saudi children dress up, usually in expensive costumes.
AMEN brother! When administrations don't back the teachers in the classroom with discipline issues, there's virtually nothing we can do to stem the tide...
We dressed our exchange student as a hobo with Mr. b’s overalls and flannel shirt and I had a couple of bandanas and he got a stick for his bag from the yard. Yeah, like that cost anything.
I never had a purchased costume, either. Mom made a Minnie Mouse I wore until I outgrew it. A couple other years, we’d go through a big box of costumes the school’s theater class discarded. Other years, I wore a pioneer dress my grandmother made for a county fair many years before.
Boys would dress up in their mama’s dresses with balloons for boobs. Can’t do that these days as that’s not PC.
For those of us who didn't have costumes...they had paper grocery/other bags with which the teachers/kids would draw/paste things on(use your imagination, they certainly did).
The one year I remember walking around the classrooms with a bag that had the logo of the store it came from(Tony's Sausage and Auto Parts, something like that...). The teacher only cut out holes for my eyes, but cut them too wide, and as such, I was constantly running into people/things, getting kicked, tripped...all while being trapped in a bag that smelled like Elmer's Glue & cabbage rolls(then again...maybe it wasn't the bag???), that, and it itched like hell, feeling like things were crawling on my head.
That same year my mom dressed me as Little Black Sambo by covering my face with oil furnace ash from the vent pipe(fortunately my mom found out the ash came off easily with Vicks Vaporub)...I didn't get much candy(we lived just outside of Detroit...don't think the locals found my costume amusing...got a lot of dirty/threatening looks)...but hey, at least the burns(Vaporub)and flea bites(paper bag)healed quickly(the acne...not so much).
Later on, judging by my "popularity" in High School, not to mention the(very)few "beauties" that showed any interest in me...maybe I should have kept a few of those bags.
...ahhh, youth...the good old days.
Well, I went to Catholic school which frowned on any kid having fun anytime!
How fun and great memories!
Our older daughter was always very creative. When she was six or seven, we started going to Goodwill to pick up funny old clothes for next to nothing. She used to make scarecrows for the front porch every autumn. They were the best! Every year we’d toss any “new” items from Goodwill into a box to use the following year. She probably made us scarecrows for ten or twelve years running and I doubt we spent more than $20 all combined. It was great fun doing those projects with her and exercising all sorts of creativity and ingenuity. Great times.
These sorry excuses the schools make up, especially about “kids not affording to buy a costing equipment,” really hack me off.
“”You can only fool children for so long and they see the writing on the wall. :)””
Oh! I do hope you’re right. Of course, when that all sinks in, they’d have to move to a different state to survive. You’d have to go with them, of course!
I know exactly what I meant. Hobos are vagabonds who are constantly moving from place to place. A hobo might even have a home somewhere, but prefers to wander the country. Homeless people connect to one place, often the last place they had a home, and rarely move from there.
That is the ultimate goal of the neocon/liberal/globalist mindset. The exception will be the preferred celebrations of the oppressed minorities. MLK day, ramadan, cinco de mayo, to name a few.
Halloween . . . Straight from the pits of HELL!
We would take the special ed class (aka life skills class) on relatively free field trips about every other week. They were about the only students who got to go anywhere. The school would furnish a couple of vans for transportation and we (teachers) would drive so the school didn’t have to pay for drivers. There was no way the parents could afford admission so I’d find somewhere that was free. The lunchroom packed sandwiches (they had sack lunches all the time for those lunch accounts were empty so that was no big deal) so lunch and drink costs weren’t a problem.
We’d go to free admission days at museums or library story hour. There was a goat milking farm that let them milk the goats, learn about making cheese and the wonderful owners grilled them goat burgers! The state park let them in free to go geocaching, hiking and fishing. Or we’d do the missions in San Antonio. Or the ice cream factory, etc.
One of their life skills was learning to cook so other students would give them their unopened milk, fruit juice and fruit instead of trashing it so that would save on ingredient costs. We’d sell baked goods like banana bread, apple pies and cookies so the kids could split the money and learn to shop at Walmart or drive into the city to a mall.
Field trips don’t need to cost much but schools have a habit of squashing fun. They stopped those field trips and cooking class when we three teachers quit.
Haha well that explains it. Lol
Just tell them your kid identifies as a pirate today. That they would be ok with.
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