Do your childrens schools celebrate Halloween?

My son's school does. This is his first year there, but I guess there were a few years that went by that they didn't celebrate Halloween. The only thing is is that the kids can't dress in any costume that is too violent and no toy weapons.

Not Halloween related, but when we lived in Virginia the school he attended there didn't have any Christmas celebrations. This wasn't the staff's decision but it was happening around the time where some people were making a fuss over Christmas decorations and such. Do you remember a couple years back when some retail stores and I think an airport had to remove either remove anything decorations they put up that had to do with Christmas, either that or put up Hanukkah and Kwanzia (sp) stuff too.

Hi, yes my son's school celebrates Halloween from 1st grade and up. Last year he was in kindergarten so he couldn't wear his costume (they don't allow kindergarteners to wear costumes because they are little and too much hassle for them) but this year he's in 1st grade so he got to wear his costume. They are having a parade and parents are welcome to come, I can't wait to go since it's today. After the parade, they're having class parties and passing out treats and playing games.

They do have christmas parties later in the year but they don't really call them "christmas parties" since it's a public school. On valentine's day, they pass out treats. And the last thing they celebrate is the end of the school year. They set up games, inflatables, and have a pot luck dinner.

I'm sorry that your kid's schools don't celebrate holidays. Some schools are really strict.

Christmas and Easter are considered religious holidays and in public schools they won't be recognized because of the separation of church and state. If they recognized those they would have to recognize ALL religious holidays around those times as well and it would just get to be too much. If you were in an Christian school those would be celebrated. Halloween is not done in alot of schools anymore because of so many violent costumes that kids were coming in with from home. Even if your kids were'nt trust me, other people were doing it. Halloween is also not celebrated or recognized by some people in different faiths because it is against what their beliefs teach. There is also the food allergy issue in alot of classrooms or schools so they eliminate parties so no one sends in cookies or something that may have nut traces in them or some other allergy issue for someone. That's also why alot of schools banned peanut butter items- which IMHO is RIDICULOUS. There a comes a point and time to teach children about their allergy and that you don't eat things from other peoples lunches or things you don't know for sure if they will affect your allergies or not when you go to a gathering somewhere rather than ruining it for everyone else. It's not like they ban perfume or hairspray in schools for the kids with asthma issues that could trigger from that stuff. The main reason I think though is because schools have become less about teaching and letting kids be kids in each grade to "shove the information for a standardized test down their throats to boost our scores" so no one really gets to relax and just teach anymore. It's all become about standardized testing and teaching towards a test rather than just teaching and taking time out now and then to do some of the simple childhood things with kids in the younger grades.

my son goes to a Lutheran Preschool. They celebrate all the holidays. They did trunk-n-treat for halloween and are having a party today.

The High School doesn't really do anything, but that's because of the age.

The other kids go to school in another county and I'm not sure what they do.

That's strange, I have never heard of a school that doesn't celebrate Halloween in one way or another. I am in high school and we're still allowed to wear our costumes and bring treats and everything, which I think is kinda funny. I thought they stopped costumes and parties in middle school, but nope, not where I live. Maybe consider suggesting the idea and see what happens next year.

They didn't for many years, but I am thrilled to find that they are slowly allowing some of the fun back into the schools.

Their way around it, in our school district, is that they just happen to have "spirit week" around Halloween. Today, as a matter of fact is the "Funky Dress or Costume Day " of Spirit Week at my daughter's school, with a Halloween-themed dance immediately following the school day.

Worked out perfectly, I'd say.

; )

My girls school has a harvest dance at night that you can wear a costume to. The party they have is autumn not halloween based. They have a party but no witches, or ghosts just pumpkins. Halloween is a devil (ie anti religious) holiday so it is taboo to the religious population. Just like Christmas is a religious holiday so it is taboo to anyone who is not Christian. We have winter holiday party (not Christmas), Valentines day and Autumn party. Not really holiday parties more like season parties, but the kids don't care it's a party and no school work.

Your school district seems over-the-top strict.

At my children's school they don't dress up but have a crazy hat/hair day.

The younger grades have a Costume Parade that is much anticipated.

During December, there are class parties and "Holiday" concerts.

Please note that these are public schools, not private/parochial.

Your school has sucked a lot of the fun out of school, in my opinion.

In my younger siblings' school district they do not celebrate birthdays or holidays. They don't even have class parties anymore. All the soda machines were taken out of the schools and now they get milk or water or 100% juice to drink. You can not bring in junk food of any kind because they are now checking your lunch bags (if you pack lunch) to make sure you are not bringing in any "forbidden" foods (cookies, cupcakes, soda, frizzy drinks, cakes, chips, sweets, candy). You can not bring in any juice that isn't 100% juice (nothing made from concentrate, artificial flavoring, lots of sugar).

Yeah, my daughter is in Kindergarten. The seniors from the high school come visit and 'parade' around the little school, and in the afternoon my daughter's class gets to dress up in their costumes and have a party.