You should be able to do little things, like hats or not really distracting(but everyone is already distracted, its Halloween :!: :eusadancing: )We do black and orange day, no costumes or hats :( :( :(

But you're allowed to dress up more than that for spirit week? Why should halloween be any different?

Well i agree with you.....only prob.....at my school we dont even have spirt week, we have uniforms, so i doubt the administators would alow it...Thier already busting our chops as it is.

That's a good point. I guess that would just be too much fun.

At my school, CBMS, we do have a halloween and we really get away with it because we have a Halloween dance with a costume contest. You can only not wear hats, facepaints, masks or anything over your face/revealing. Talk to your principal about it if you really want it for next year, I mean I'm sure he/she's nicer than you expect. I'm sure you can set up a comprimise!

uno problamo....

some people dont celebrate halloween b/c they think it to be the birth day of the devil.

as much as i love halloween i just needed to bring up that point. :eusanaughty:

Actually I don't think anyone thinks that it is the birthday of the devil--the objection is it's pagan affiliation. However, lots of schools celebrate Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patricks' Day, etc. for all of which there is somone who doesn't believe in them. However, Halloween is seen as a secular holiday in today's society. If we can get off of school for Jewish Holidays and Christian Holidays, the school system's problem with a now secular and in fact universal harvest festival is not (or at least SHOULD NOT be)the problem with celebrating Halloween in school.

i know there are people that dant celabrate halloween for religious reasons.

and x-mas celabrations are normaly "holiday celebration".

v-day and st. pattys day idk.

but halloween can be seen as maybe fall celebration and maybe if you wanted to do like maybe best fall outfit but i KNOW for a fact that kids do not celabrate halloween and i just dont think it would be fair to them.

I don't celebrate St. Patricks day--I don't think that gives me the right to keep others from celebrating it. I don't celebrate Christmas. The school board has made it fairly clear that our holiday is scheduled around the celebration of that holiday. We get off of school for Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur. THe question here is not whether or not the school system has a zero tolerance policy for religious holidays in school.

Instead of approaching this as a religious question, you should see this is in context of today's society. Halloween has many different origins, but nowadays it is mostly just about breaking routine, acting as a sort of catharsis from normal societal restrictions that separate civilization from the cyclical nature of humanity and the world. Yes, for many this involves a special connection between the living and the dead, but it is also just about celebrating the fall in anticipation of winter (ie. symbol of living to dead, cycles of nature). When you said the devil's birthday, i think you were referring to the pagan god of winter, that was comparable to the devil for christians who later tried to persecute and assimilate these ideas into their own.

However, in america, this holiday is now about fun. Kids connect with their neighbors. You get candy!!! It's about doing something different and appreciating being alive. It no longer has a religious affiliation for the majority of people--and there are just as few people who see it religiously as there are who find it offensive. Why ruin a tradition that has existed as long as the transition between summer and winter has been fall?

There will always be someone who are offended by anything of value--Lots of people are offended by the books you read in school. Does that mean we ban the books? No. It means we don't make those people read them. If people don't want to celebrate Halloween then fine. No one is forcing them. Does that mean we should let a few extremists ruin something good for everyone else? Not at all.

Halloween is actually an incredibly important holiday, and is quite unique in its historical significance to so many societies and cultures. There is no reason for the school system to actively deny the holiday (black and orange day) and punish students (detention) for simply having a little educational and valuable fun. Being different, acting crazy, having fun, all of these things always run the risk of offending someone. But every once in a while you should run that risk, or your life will be boring and meaningless. That's what Halloween is about anyway, and maybe if the school system celebrated it then they would understand the educational value of having fun.

We ironically had Spirit Week the week of Halloween. So that day we did Black and Orange day, but no costumes. The elemertary schools can why cant we.......