Halloween Disrespectful to Witches

You can't make this stuff up folks.

A letter sent home to parents Wednesday said there will be no observance of Halloween in any of the district's schools.

"We really want to make sure we're using all of our time in the best interest of our students," Puyallup School District spokeswoman Karen Hansen said.

The superintendent made the decision for three primary reasons, Hansen said. First, Halloween parties and parades waste valuable classroom time. Second, some families can't afford costumes and the celebrations thus can create embarrassment for children.

Both of those reasons seemed sensible to the parents who spoke to ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle. But the district's third reason left some Puyallup parents shaking their heads.

The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.

I guess they'll be banning Macbeth as well.

Comments

[Lynn]

I said it all in my entry, after reading this one. I WAS going to go into a rant but it's not worth the time and effort, I guess.

[Wyrmwood]

The PAGANS and the WITCHES didn't say it was offensive... the SCHOOL DISTRICT said it MIGHT BE.

The Pagans and the Witches didn't have anything to do with this.

[Jeffrey Collins]

And your point would be what?

[Christopher]

All i can say is that if a reall wiccan is offended by the celibration of halloween then they are most likely not real wiccans. The wanting of the halloween celibration to be banned would result in the harming of others and the disrespect of others and wicca is all about not causing harm and respecting all others beliefs.