CraigM
5180
Evangelicals are really fucking loud about things, if you haven’t noticed. You get a handful of ‘Christian’ Karens raising a stink and, well, here you are.
According to this article it’s not a religious concern but instead because some kids have good costumes and others don’t.
This lady is a Halloween Grinch, that’s what I think. And this is communism! Not the good seize the means of production kind, but the bad no one have fun and everyone be exactly the same and Obey kind.
Call me crazy, but why the hell does Halloween — or any other holiday — need a themed celebration in schools?
Because kids like having fun? It gives them something to look forward to? It’s a harmless cultural tradition? They play with their friends? You sound like a Grinch too.
Also I have read this story and insist that all the people in it are made-up people, based on their names.
Then they should play card games in math class, play baseball in English class. And so on.
When that Stranger Things episode came on where the kids all dressed up as Ghostbusters to go to school, did that give you a twinge of happy nostalgia or did it upset you because someone, somewhere, might be having a good time?
Peace and love, peace and love.
School is where you are supposed to have sex and smoke dope and steal your parent’s car. You want fun? That’s fun.
I wish I’d had fun in school.
I mean, it’s all fun and games until you actually wreck your parent’s car. Sigh.
I think the issue there was the order of operations. Steal the car first.
I did steal it first!
At least the cops in those days were a bit more philosophical about these things.
Alstein
5192
Around here Halloween or Nov.1st tends to be a teachers workday for this reason.
I feel like you are just seconds away from telling us to get off your lawn. Complete with vigorous fist shaking and possibly a related diatribe about how things were in your day.
Do it. Lean in.
Feel the power of the dark side!
I called it! Lower-income families have neither the money to buy costumes nor the time to make them, and having an official school event where people are expected to wear costumes, and where not wearing one singles you out, can be shameful to kids who often have enough else to be worried and insecure about already.
Trying to eliminate class-based divides in (mandatory) public schools has been an ongoing effort for a while. Things like reducing the stigma of free school lunch and other free programs.
I know I’m in the very tiny minority here, and know that it would never fly in the US, but personally, I’m in favor of (subsidized) school uniforms for public schools because what clothing you wear is a very clear class indicator and can be a significant contributor to bullying.
Alstein
5197
Uniforms come with their own problems, such as making it harder for kids with dysphoria unless you go full gender-neutral, and encouraging conformity.
The key to avoiding class divides is a good culture period, and that starts with the kids and teachers.
I’m pretty sure he has an onion hanging from his belt too.
I’m okay with both these things!
(Having school aged children, I admit that my position is largely influenced by a selfish desire to just have one pile of “school clothes” and never need to figure out what the kids are wearing at 7 AM ever again.)
