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Toronto Discrict School Board thinking about cancelling Hallowe'en. School Board is fearful of upsetting Wiccans.

http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20051027-014/page.asp

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Things like this make me want to blow people up. Just to prove once and for all we are all the same on the inside.

[queenie-writes.livejournal.com]

School Board is fearful of upsetting Wiccans.

As they should be. Its only fair considering all the holidays they make Wiccans put up with. And as a non wiccan but Pagan, I would be upset if they took it away. This is the only one that is STILL considered a pagan holiday.

[queenie-writes.livejournal.com]

Upon further reading, I think I misunderstood what you meant by upsetting wiccans. Either way...its still stupid.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

They don't want to offend wiccans with children parading around as a witch.

They can't possibly want to spare the feelings of that jehovah's witness kid who doesn't get to celebrate anything and has to say "No, I'm sorry I can't have fun with you", nope, they're worried about offending witches with their mangled pagan holiday.

[mellian.livejournal.com]

Is it something they are doing on their own part or is there some silly anal wiccans out there complaining to them?

-mellian