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While it does seem a bit much to stop having such parties, we might also look at it from the other end. Why should we have them? Is there a good educational reason for promoting Halloween?
Rather than looking for a good reason to exclude Halloween, maybe we should be looking for a good reasonto include it as a school activity. Half the schools where I have student teachers are uniform schools so it isn't an issue there. I don't know what the other half do at the moment, but I did get the question and told my student teachers to ask their schools for guidelines and decide how to handle things based on that.
I don't see Halloween as a big enough issue to be very concerned about it whether it's included or excluded.
Gilda
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