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Commentary: Kudos and plaudits to our school for recognizing the fun and funny Halloween tradition. If you read/listen to/watch the news (which should be a daily, though depressing, part of your routine), you know that some schools have cancelled Halloween parties because someone was offended by kids in costumes asking for candy. Dire prediction: Within 20 years, there will be no Halloween festivities at any public schools. Halloween will be replaced by a celebration of "Autumn". How nice. Of course, I'll still be coming in dressed as Ali G saying " Does you fink vat 'alloween is bollocks?"

Look how bent out of shape some people are over this innocuous custom that keeps Nestle, Hershey, and Mars in business:
Yesterday, President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan parents to protect their children from Halloween with a spooky warning that the US tradition is rooted in "terrorism."

"What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism," Chavez said, quoted in the local press. "They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture."

Anyway, at the very least, the costume contest demonstrated our students' artistic creativity/imagination, provided some comic relief and kept a quaint little custom alive.
I can't wait to protest at a local school board meeting in 2021 about how OFFENDED I am by the idea of celebrating the base and vulgar season of Autumn..."can't you feel the cold chill and darkness that besets and plagues us every Autumn!" (led away in shackles to Bellevue)
I'm actually a fan of the Fall, though.
Now, back to studying (writing).