WPVI-TV says parents received a letter from the principal at Inglewood Elementary School in Lansdale on Tuesday.
The letter said parents were told that holidays like Halloween are seen by some as secular and viewed by others as having religious overtones.
But it said school districts are barred from promoting religious beliefs, and while they can teach about religious and cultural practices, they cannot sponsor them."
Are you kidding me?! Halloween? These kinds of things really annoy me to no end. I realize the whole church/state thing. I get it. But just because there are some people that have it in their mind that Halloween is some kind of pagan holiday and that's all it is, does not make it so. Halloween is one of those holidays that kids really look forward to and enjoy. Why should anyone, including the school, make them suffer because they are hung up on an idea?
It seems almost shocking to me that, in this advanced day and age, people find themselves wrapped around an outdated and misunderstood religious connection with Halloween. Kids do not celebrate any kind of religious holiday when they dress up and gather candy. They are simply enjoying a holiday that is very much geared towards their entertainment and adventure. For a school to cancel an event for them because of the hang up of select parents, is simply ridiculous.
People need to get over themselves and learn to have a little bit thicker skin. It is less about what twisted ideas we have as adults and more about allowing the kids to have a good time. Are they going to cancel a "hat day" because some religions do not wear hats? If people and schools continue down this path of being hung up on such outdated ways of thinking, where will it stop?
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