The Puyallup school district in the state of Washington has decided to cancel its Halloween celebration where the kids get dressed up at school and have a parade. The first two reasons sited by the school district make perfect sense to me:
1. “We really want to make sure we’re using all of our time in the best interest of our students.”
2. Some families can’t afford costumes and the celebrations thus can create embarrassment for children.
The third reason is the one that is killing me:
3. “Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that.”
Yes you read that correctly. The school district doesn’t want to offend any real witches. What the fuck? What is this country coming to? I have read of a better time when we tossed the real witches off into the river to see if they would sink or swim. If these “real witches” are so offended that they want to ruin a small childs fun and chance at free candy I say they let lets round these witches up and find the nearest river.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=184701&page=1
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I’m a real witch and I’m not offended by kids dressing up. I think the pointy-nosed witches are cute even if not representative of my religion. In fact, I found two sorceress robes this year that I thought were very realistic and I love the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings stuff. I am sorry that they brought us into it at all. I don’t know any witches who don’t encourage the celebration of one of our holidays.
That ruling is being discussed on all the Teacher Boards, too. How ridiculous. Schools are so afraid of offending somebody now, that they’re offending everybody. Poor little kids, if their families do not believe in celebrations. Poor kids.