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To me? The issue is more of one where the vocal minority gets their way AGAIN and "political correctness" (to coddle the whiners) steps in and ruins it for the majority.
What's next?
I agree. It's sad we have to live in a society where everyone is so afraid of offending someone else. We all have to succumb to the lowest common denominator.
Under the same logic we need to ban Thanksgiving from schools because some kids might be Vegetarians and it offends them and they don't participate.
Also the article doesn't explain why Halloween is offense or why certain people do not celebrate it. Growing up everyone I know celebrated Halloween. Free candy. Hanging with your friends in costumes. Also 20% sounds pretty high. Where are these people from that they don't celebrate Halloween!
It's an American Tradition like Apple Pie and Baseball.
Under the same logic we need to ban Thanksgiving from schools because some kids might be Vegetarians and it offends them and they don't participate.
Also the article doesn't explain why Halloween is offense or why certain people do not celebrate it. Growing up everyone I know celebrated Halloween. Free candy. Hanging with your friends in costumes. Also 20% sounds pretty high. Where are these people from that they don't celebrate Halloween!
It's an American Tradition like Apple Pie and Baseball.
You're not to far off, I suspect soon a group will be offended by Thanksgiving too
Under the same logic we need to ban Thanksgiving from schools because some kids might be Vegetarians and it offends them and they don't participate.
Also the article doesn't explain why Halloween is offense or why certain people do not celebrate it. Growing up everyone I know celebrated Halloween. Free candy. Hanging with your friends in costumes. Also 20% sounds pretty high. Where are these people from that they don't celebrate Halloween!
It's an American Tradition like Apple Pie and Baseball.
Then keep that American tradition at home where it belongs.
I'd rather not pay taxes to support kids who are not even mine celebrating and eating free candy instead of learning.
When I was in school (private school) we had the first half of the day as normal classes, then at lunch we went home, changed into our costumes and came back for festivities (or you changed at school). Why not enact the same, but let the fun hating parents pick up their kids and shelter them at home? Let the rest have fun. School doesn't always have to be about classroom learning, some of my fondest memories in school were Halloween.
Just for reference this took place in the late 80s-90s.
Halloween is fun. Whether liberal or conservative, people today are way too sensitive. Let the kids have fun.
Its not even a religious holiday, unless you consider paganism a religion, but even if you do, Halloween doesn't celebrate paganism. It's a secular holiday. Children have fun. Women wear sexy costumes. How can people have a problem with any of that?
When I was in school (private school) we had the first half of the day as normal classes, then at lunch we went home, changed into our costumes and came back for festivities (or you changed at school). Why not enact the same, but let the fun hating parents pick up their kids and shelter them at home? Let the rest have fun. School doesn't always have to be about classroom learning, some of my fondest memories in school were Halloween.
Just for reference this took place in the late 80s-90s.
That's what the little kids do at our school- up until 3rd or 4th grade.
The parade and "party" lasts an entire hour, but it's at the end of the day.
No, in my experience working for companies big and small Halloween is when some workers leave early to take their kids out. If your job celebrates it then good for you, just about every corporate job do not.
Maybe because you work in NYC at a company with a sterile work culture?
The protals of social justice, formerly called schools, seem to be erasing all trace of American culture. Imagine a country that has no cultural identity. The richness of a country's culture is to be celebrated everywhere but America where any celebration is found to offend someone.
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