What Will We Tell the Children?

Elementary School Halloween Festivities Cancelled

First there was Fox (so-called)News Channel's "Christmas Under Siege" and now we have the Underwood Elementary School of Newton throwing in with their cancellation of Halloween festivities.

"The school's principal said yesterday he acceded to the complaints of a handful of parents who said that because the school's traditional Halloween celebrations offended their religious beliefs, they would not send their children to school if the revelry continued this year."

For the love of The Great Pumpkin, A HANDFUL of people?! You've got to be kidding! Look, when it comes to what parents want to expose their children to, parents gotta do, what parents gotta do, but this is just flat-out ridiculous. If a few parents have such a fragile belief system that they cannot bear for their children to be exposed to the black, naughty evil that is the average elementary school Halloween celebration, then they should keep their kids home.

On the upside, there will be more candy corn (hmmm...candy corn) for the other kids. Jeez.