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I thought Chad was the cool kid. Right up there with Cory.
The loser kid in our school was always called Martin. Or Keith.
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That's not too surprising to me.... I'm more surprised that they've been allowed to WEAR costumes 'til now. I was still in elementary school when my school district banned the wearing of Halloween costumes. It's a good point they bring up about kids being fidgity and distracted by costumes. I know I always was.... and the school wasn't completely trying to cut out Halloween festivities.... they still brought in special story tellers and made a special day out of it. If the kids can't wear their costumes to school, then life goes on.... worse things have happened.
~LOA
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Well, you know it's just one day that kids get to wear costumes. It's like saying why don't we abolish vacations because kids are fidgety on the last day of school.
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Yeah. That's the reason they USED, not the REAL reason. The real reason is that they didn't want some lame-ass pseudo-Christian Fundie or some other zero-baseline religion that looks upon Halloween as 'evil' because it's based upon a Christianized pagan holiday (just like Yule and Eostre became Christmas and Easter Sunday, but they ignore that) pitching a fit and giving them bad publicity.
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or maybe it IS partially rooted in political correctness, as happened in some Ohio school districts *years* ago: Kids couldn't dress as hobos because (as the overly-sensitive spokesperson for the district said "A hobo is just a homeless person.")
No witches, because that's a stereotype of the Wiccans. No cowboys, because that's offensive to the Indians. Well, not the real Indians, but to white people who feel that they should be insensed on the Indians' behalf. No ghosts or skeletons: too disturbing. etc, etc.
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Actually, we've never worn costumes on Halloween. I think it's an American thing.
Also, when we do have Halloween parties, everyone goes as something "scary", whereas in the US, Halloween fancy dress seems to allow anything.
But that's not interesting.
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