One of my fondest memories from elementary school was the Halloween Party, we got to dress up and get candy, at school. We didn't have to do something good to get the candy, we didn't have to turn in all our work, or be quiet in the halls; we just had to show up. We got to wear our costumes more than once and it didn't matter if Halloween fell on a Monday we had our party at school that day and went trick-or-treating that night, not another night that wasn't a school night. I also enjoyed the fact that most of the teachers also dressed up, it was great to see them as someone besides themselves. The funniest costume I remember was one of my teachers dressed in a navy suit with Monopoly money pinned all over him. When asked what he was; a Republican of course. The next year he went as a Democrat and spent the day giving out Monopoly money, the worse your grade the more you got. But those days are gone.
We teachers now are not allowed to dress up for Halloween, we can't have the kids dress up and no Halloween parties. We can vote as a faculty to have two of the following; a Fall Celebration, Winter Celebration or Spring Celebration, or what used to be called Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day. We inevitably vote for the Winter and Spring Celebrations leaving Halloween as an after thought.
School isn't a place for anything but learning standards anymore and that's a damn shame.
2 comments:
Yeah i know..
If we do try to do anything out of the ""ordinary"" we're the bad apples. Just because we know how to live life :)
But that's so stereotyping isn't it..
or we believe that there are more important things in life than standards...
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