No Halloween Allowed

[Will E Worm]

Seattle Elementary School Bans Halloween Costumes

A Seattle school has banned students from celebrating a new holiday this year: Halloween.

Lafayette Elementary School has decided to not allow students to dress up in costume for Halloween this year. And there is still some discrepancy between parents and the administration as to why the ban has been implemented this fall.

The decision was first reported by the district (Seattle Public Schools) as being a preventative measure in the event that Halloween costumes could offend and upset students who come from other cultures. Dozens of parents complained to the school over the measure demanding a detailed explanation.

Lafayette’s principal, Shauna Heath, e-mailed media outlets, including The West Seattle Blog, arguing the decision was made because of the limited instructional time that falls on Halloween this year. Seattle Public Schools observe a half-day of instruction on Wednesday, October 31.

“This decision was made by the entire staff after two deep and detailed discussions. The initial conversation was initiated by staff members who suggested that since Halloween falls this year on a half day of school, we not allow costumes. It takes students a while to change into their costumes, and students are distracted taking away from the already limited instructional time.

“The Lafayette Staff met again on Monday, revisiting and recommitting to their decision of no costumes so that we can focus on academics during the limited time we have available. The staff has committed to continuing the conversation throughout the year before deciding on what we will do in the future about Halloween celebrations.”

“I was just really sad and I had to fight back tears,” fourth-grader Leilani Nitkey told KCPQ-TV.

CBS affiliate KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reports the school announced it will be hosting a “Harvest Party” in lieu of a costume party.

One parent told The Seattle Time that earlier in the week a school vice principal told him the costumes were banned because observing Halloween might be offensive to some students, but the school said that wasn’t the case.

Some parents say that although Halloween has its roots as a religious observance, it’s now a secular holiday that shouldn’t be considered offensive.

“It seems like another one of those things where kids are no longer allowed to be kids,” parent Hart Rusen told KCPQ.

However, the root of the ban is still up for debate in the township.

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More liberal garbage.

We should send emails and regular mail to this stupid school.


This is America, not your country, if you're offended go back to your own country. We are not going to accommodate you! :nono:

 

[alexpnz]

Cmon w/ this bullshit already, Will...

 

[Will E Worm]

Cmon w/ this bullshit already, Will...

I did not take away anything from them. :nono:

 

[Sam Fisher]

Cmon w/ this bullshit already, Will...

Alex.... No. This horse shit needs to stop! Look at this story.....

Family: "School Made Deaf Child Change Sign Name, Said It Looked Like Gun"

A Nebraska school district wants a 3-year-old deaf boy to change the way he signs his name because they say the gesture makes his hands look like weapons, the boy's family claims.
The district, in Grand Island, about three hours west of Omaha, has a policy that forbids kids bringing to school "any instrument ... that looks like a weapon," local station KOLN reported.
According to the report, Hunter Spanjer signs his name by crossing his index finger and middle finger and then wagging his hands, which the school says is not appropriate.
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," his grandmother, Janet Logue, told KOLN.

Brian Spanjer demonstrates how his son Hunter "signs" his name.

"It's a symbol," his father, Brian Spanjer, added. "It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E.," or Signing Exact English, a sign language system.
A school spokesman called the issue a "misunderstanding" and said it had nothing to do with guns or weapons.
The name gesture was "not an appropriate thing to do in school," and administrators were asking Hunter to spell his name out, letter-by-letter, instead of using the sign, spokesman Jack Sheard told the Daily News.
"We want to do what is best for every student in our district, and we care more about that than everything else," Sheard said. "We are working with the parents to find the best solution we can."

Locals think the school should leave the tyke alone. "It's his name. It's not like he's going to bring a gun to school when he's 3-years old," Grand Islander Dana Schwieger fumed.

This is exactly what Will and I mean when we say political correctness has gotten out of control.

 

[Deepcover]

What? You guys are both crazy.

 

[Mayhem]

I'm with Will on this one. And while I'm going to have to fight down the urge to cut myself for doing it, I gotta go with what Sam posted too. Both cases are absolute bullshit.

Washington State gives Liberalism a bad name. The parents I used to work with/talk to when I lived in the Bellingham/Everett area used to go on and on about one ridiculous educational theory after another being foisted upon them. Testing with no grading to not affect the wee tykes self esteem was a big one back in the 90s. And it may still be. Busting kids with pocket knives is another one. Hell, my Dad is as close to a pacifist as you can get and he once chewed me out for forgetting mine....on a school day.

Halloween? If you're offended by Halloween, you're offended by everything and the problem is yours, and it should stay yours. My elementary school would have gone on strike, with parental support, if they disallowed costumes.

 

[STDiva]

I hate Halloween, but if people want to come from other countries, they need to adapt. See some kids in Captain America and Harry Potter costumes or get bombed wherever the fuck you came from.

Wait. This was a preventative measure? So nobody actually complained and they decided this?

 

[Johan]

I'm with Will on that one (yeah, seems incredible to me as well, I can't believe what I'm typing right now !). Halloween isn't a religious holiday anymore. Or, at least, not only a religious holiday. It's part of the American culture.
People have right not to be part of it, not to celebrate Halloween, not to take their kids to play Trick-or-Treat, they should be allowed no to bring their kids at school on this day 'cause if the other kids are costumed, the kid who's not may feel sad. But they don't have right to ban halloween.
Their liberty stops where other people's liberty starts.

America and the American people must remain inflexible on this topic. If they succeed on banning Halloween today, tomorrow, they will try banning Christmas !



This is my thought on many subject (abortion, gay marriage, halloween, etc...) : You have right not to like it. You have right not to do it. But if other people want to do it, you can't forbid them to do it.

[...] unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Pursuing your happiness doesn't allow you to forbid other people to do the thing that make them happy.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

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More liberal garbage.

We should send emails and regular mail to this stupid school.


This is America, not your country, if you're offended go back to your own country. We are not going to accommodate you! :nono:

it's the right-wing religious fanatics that want to ban halloween dumbass

 

[bahodeme]

In Sam's example, it's not political correctness as much as it is stupidity. If you as the "adult" should understand context. If you ask the child what their name is, the child tells you, where does the thought of a gun comes in? A gun with a barrel the way the child's fingers are positioned I would not want to shoot.

As far as Halloween is concerned, there have been religious groups have been looking to ban it for years. The excuse the school system is giving is not good. There is no reason not to hold the event the day before or after, which is a scheduled full day. The only thing most kids are concerned with is first-candy, second-candy, third-dressing up followed by....candy.

 

[luis1972]

No sense...

 

[Will E Worm]

Mayhem and Johan :clap:

I hate Halloween, but if people want to come from other countries, they need to adapt. See some kids in Captain America and Harry Potter costumes or get bombed wherever the fuck you came from.

Wait. This was a preventative measure? So nobody actually complained and they decided this?

Hate for Halloween! :nono:

Assimilate or do not come here! :elaugh:

it's the right-wing religious fanatics that want to ban halloween dumbass

You're listening to the wrong people. Most Christians are not for banning Halloween.

 

[STDiva]

Hate for Halloween! :nono:

Halloween stopped being fun 18 years ago.

 

[Will E Worm]

Halloween stopped being fun 18 years ago.

 

[Deepcover]

Halloween stopped being fun 18 years ago.

I agree with you on that.

 

[bobjustbob]

Let's egg and toilet paper both schools.

 

[Will E Worm]

Let's egg and toilet paper both schools.

Great idea.

 

[Ravenholm]

This madness reminds me of the UK where all schools have banned the nursery rhyme Bah Bah Black Sheep incase it offends people of a different skin tone or culture. And it also reminds me of a year or two back where I read that in Australia at Xmas time Santa's are banned from the phrase "Ho ho ho" as it is deemed offensive to women. I am going to say it again as I've said it before. See these cunts that support this sort of behavior I'd introduce the thick end of a baseball bat (a metal one at that) to the back of their thick skulls. But I'd do so only in a dark wintery night where no cunt is about to witness it. Really, I mean these parasites that are a part of the PC brigade will be the downfall of common sense and humanity. Stupid fucktards!.

 

[C.K. Lawrence]

It's a paganistic holiday anyways William, I thought you might be against it. Nah, in a country with freedom I'd think it would be a choice to make... whatever, like bob mentioned, just toilet paper the school.

 

[Johan]

Assimilate or do not come here

President Sarkozy said once "France, love it or leave it" (La France, tu l'aimes ou tu la quittes)
Americans could say the same about America.