By: Shawn Martin
You won't see little ghouls and goblins running around one Massachusetts elementary school this Halloween.
The Boston Herald reports that the principal has banned costumes.
The reason?
The school superintendent says Halloween is quote "problematic" for some families due to its connections to witchcraft.
It's not the only holiday on the chopping block.
The school's principal is telling teachers to be careful about celebrating Thanksgiving in their class activities.All of this comes on the heels of her attack on Columbus Day when she told teachers they could no longer quote: "ignore the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples."
So, what do you think?
Does the principal have a valid point here or is she going overboard by pushing her own beliefs on teachers and students?
We asked the question on Facebook and here are just some of the responses we got:
Holly Suttle: "All Holidays of all cultures and religions should be celebrated, how else can we teach tolerance?"
Chris Harder: "It is over the top before you know it we will not be celebrating any holiday at all. Halloween is an amazing holiday where people can dress up how ever they want to and not once be ridiculed by anyone."
Andrew Meeusen: "People need to stop being so PC all the time. It's not like celebrating Halloween is going to turn kids Wiccan or into little occultists, or celebrating Thanksgiving is going to make them all Puritans or something.... It's a fun time of sugary goodness and pretending to be something fun or scary. I wish more pro-holiday parents would stand up to battle these anti-holiday ones."
Karen Miller Harper: "I don't understand how Halloween is a holiday. Seriously? What exactly are we celebrating? The founding of something? The victory of something? Family? Why should schools emphasize it? DUMB. "
Ian Herrera: "I don't remember having a halloween celebration but do remember some indian activity. I feel the schools should do away with the celebrations because of the cultural differences and some kids probably would not prefer to participate in the celebrations. I didn't like participating in the celebrations because it made me feel weird."Justin Morris: "I think they should just focus on education."
Allison Dykstra: "this is ridiculous. some of the best memories of school celebrating the holidays are friends. I'm tired of them getting rid of everything in school because 1 person doesn't like it. this is exactly why our country is in a situation we are in now. chaos and chrime"
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local news/water cooler/no-holidays-at-school%3A-more-schools-banning-halloween thanksgiving#ixzz1aszZzBp4
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Author: Maxine Clarke
Pumpkins, gory costumes, spiders and E-numbered-up kids hammering on your door. Are you ready for this year's Halloween-fest? The supermarkets have been since the last Bank Holiday in August, so what's it all about?
Many people exist quite happily without ever acknowledging Halloween. However, most of us surround ourselves with spooks, ghouls, demons, magic and spells, wizards and witches and the living dead every year because of an ancient pagan festival called Samhain and All Saints' Day from the Christian calendar.
While we are munching on pumpkin pie and bobbing apples dressed as zombies we may want to remember the Celts who 2,000 years ago would have been throwing the bones of slaughtered livestock onto bonfires and wearing masks in order to calm evil spirits. This festival traditionally celebrated the end of harvest time and the beginning of the Celtic New Year on November 1.
In later years the Christian church began marking All Saints' Day at the same time of year. Their belief was that souls were released from purgatory on All Hallow's Eve, the night before All Saints' Day, for 48 hours. This was parallel to the pagan belief that the spirits of the dead could spill into the land of the living on this particular night.
Over time, ideas from both festivals merged and became known as Hallowe'en in mainstream culture. The pagan and Christian religions continue to celebrate with their own separate events too.
Halloween is marked around the world in similar form, from Mexico's Day of the Dead to China's Ghost Festival, and increasingly as a result of the influence of American culture in areas such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe.
Since the Americans hijacked Halloween it has become an excuse for any kind of themed event for adults as well as kids: from Halloween club nights to midnight screenings of horror films at cinemas and spooky TV specials.
If you fancy a night of dastardly devilry, there are plenty of events on around the country. The All Hallow's Eve Ball at The Crypt, near Chancery Lane in London, is being held in aid of UNICEF on Friday October 31. Food is being provided by The Bleeding Heart restaurants in the rooms where King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon feasted on their wedding day.
For those interested in exploring the pagan roots of Halloween, the Caduceus Pagan and Witchcraft Halloween Bash at Conway Hall, Holborn in London could be just the ticket. The changing seasons will be celebrated with dance, song, drama and ritual on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October.
Nicely coinciding with school half term holidays, Bristol Zoo is running a series of family activities from October 24 to November 5. These include an interactive trail with residence witch, Ninny Noo; a pumpkin carving competition; and a Halloween Parade with prizes for the scariest costumes.
Along the country's heritage railways, ghoulish ghost trains will be steaming ahead for a range of family and adult seasonal rides. Railways to search for include Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Mid-Norfolk Railway, Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, South Tynedale Railway, Kent & East Sussex Railway, Bodmin
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