School Cancels Halloween, Will Celebrate ‘Black And Orange’ Spirit Day

WALPOLE (CBS) – The decorations are out and Halloween is two weeks away but there’s controversy at Boyden Elementary School in Walpole. The school will not be having its annual Halloween costume parade this year.

“I think it’s a lot of political correctness,” a Walpole woman said. “I think it’s a shame because Halloween is the funnest day of the year next to Christmas for children.”

In a message to parents the school principal says, “…the costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students. Also, the parade is not inclusive of all the students and it is our goal each and every day to ensure all student’s individual differences are respected.”

On Friday the school will have a Halloween party after school hours, but the school says Halloween itself will be “Black and Orange” spirit day.

Parents WBZ-TV spoke with are not happy about the decision to cancel the parade.

“We have grand-kids going to Boyden School. Wonderful school,” a grandmother of a student said. “The Halloween party should happen on Friday cause all the kids are excited.”

“Put a costume on. Parade down the street. Let them have their little time,” a Walpole man said. “Why do you have to turn it into something political?”

Last month a school in Needham canceled Halloween events.

Comments

One Comment

  1. Steve Hollar says:

    Yeah let’s just destroy everything. These idiot liberals don’t realize what they are doing, in the name of diversity. The parents and kids should rebel against the administration and show up with customers and carrying signs saying, “Happy Halloween”.

    1. Jason King says:

      What makes you say it’s liberals? Conservatives are the ones that think it’s ‘devil day’. Why do you think liberals complained and not conservatives?

      1. Gary O'Neal says:

        “…the costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students. Also, the parade is not inclusive of all the students and it is our goal each and every day to ensure all student’s individual differences are respected.”

        This is liberal, PC “inclusiveness” at its finest. Inclusive to the point of excluding everyone. This is clearly liberal-think. As I’ve noted elsewhere, Christians tried for decades to get Halloween out of the schools. They just needed to be patient and let the leftists do the job for them.

  2. Don’t like it, stop supporting Liberals. No other group is subjugating your kids to this PC garbage. Liberals are all about destroying culture and traditions. Be very afraid of the do-gooders. The worst people on the planet have been people who cloak themselves in doing good when in fact they are the most evil.

    1. Jason King says:

      Imagine moving to another country and they wanted your kid to perform a public death ritual.

  3. “Black and Orange Spirit day”? Now why would they force those children to be Cincinnati Bengals fans on that day? Don’t they know this is Patriot country?

  4. Some kids are excited… Others a just plain terrified of this holiday. It’s cruel to say it’s for the kids when it’s really about the parents own self satisfaction in thinking they are treating the kids. They are in reality playing up a holiday where kids get nightmares & cavity causing candy that they have to suffer at the dentist later for. Holidays should really be celebrated at home with family & friends anyways. They don’t need to bring it into the school, where kids who don’t celebrate any given holiday, where fellow students will make them feel left out even if they don’t like whichever holiday it is.

  5. Gary O'Neal says:

    For years, Christians tried in vain to get Halloween out of the schools. Of course, they were mocked and derided for their efforts.

    Who knew it would be leftist, PC politics that finally granted the Christian’s wishes? This is really just too funny.

  6. Alma Lopez says:

    What a bunch of hogwash that principal’s message was!

  7. Gaijin Ronin says:

    Political correctness and the politicizing of everything is just another step in the march towards communism.

  8. Well this is just F ‘ed up.

  9. Don Perry says:

    As a retired teacher, I thought I’d never support the dissolution of “public” education, but I now believe it’s time. Utter idiots have taken over the whole system. Perhaps this is the swamp that needs drained.

  10. Bill Loyal says:

    And.. we as parents have the right to tell this school to screw off and let our kids enjoy Halloween. Screw what big brother wants.

  11. Frank Papcin says:

    another school giving in to bullies
    —the PC police wins again— but I bet it was only a few of the leadership that did this

  12. Jimmy VA says:

    Poor, Triggered Liberal Snow Flakes ruin it for All Americans. Time to fight them at every turn, every road.

  13. If you want to tear down a country, first you must tear down it’s history and culture.

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

More From CBS Boston

Opioid Crisis
Download Our App
Download Weather App

Watch & Listen LIVE