Yesterday in checking my son’s school backpack, I found a message from his teacher regarding Halloween. It said that they would be taking no notice of Halloween for “a number of reasons”, and that we should under no circumstances send our kids in or with costumes or send treats.
What a pity. Halloween, which more than anything else is about pure innocent fun for kids, has been preempted by political correctness and religious conservatism. Yes, I know, its roots are Pagan. But at this point the only association between the Pagan holiday – Samhain – and Halloween is the date. A modern American Halloween has long lost all associations with the observance of Samhain. Dressing up is a children’s game, nothing more. I hate to see them deprived of it.
This is *exactly* the sort of thing that gets my knickers in a twist. I’ll overflow the comment box if I go on, so suffice to say that if the school administrators sanction a school Christmas or Easter observance after pulling that nonsense, I’d be the first in line to nail ‘em to the wall.
Yeah, well, my knickers are pretty twisted too. And believe me, if the school has anything more closely associated with Christmas than snowmen for their seasonal display, I shall have my nails ready.