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A Seattle elementary school canceled Halloween activities over concerns about student equity and inclusion. Specifically, Seattle Public Schools says Black males do not celebrate and, more generally, students of color feel marginalized by the holiday. One parent, however, thinks this is an “exercise in affluent white vanity that is wokeism.”

Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary (B.F. Day) in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood typically hosts Halloween festivities each year. They include a “Pumpkin Parade” where students wear costumes if they choose. But the school administration changed its focus to “foundational beliefs around equity for our students and families,” and, consequently, they’re canceling Halloween.

This year the only thing spooky and creepy is the school’s commitment to wokeness. What could be more equitable than having strangers give you free candy? Not to the school’s Racial Equity Team that decided with staff to gut Halloween.

B.F. Day cancels Halloween

The school delivered the ghoulish news in an October 8 newsletter to parents.

“As a school with foundational beliefs around equity for our students and families, we are moving away from our traditional ‘Pumpkin Parade’ event and requesting that students do not come to school in costumes,” the newsletter reads.

Even though the news will disappoint students, the newsletter says, the decision is meant to show respect for all B.F. Day students.

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Halloween events create a situation where some students must be excluded for their beliefs, financial status, or life experience. Costume parties often become an uncomfortable event for many children, and they distract students and staff from learning. Large events create changes in schedules with loud noise levels and crowds. Some students experience over stimulation, while others must deal with complex feelings of exclusion. It’s uncomfortable and upsetting for kids.

Nothing says equity quite like making every student miss out on the fun because some administrator invented a scenario where students feel excluded. And we wouldn’t want to distract students from learning — except, of course, on National Walkout Day when students were allowed to ditch learning to form a giant peace sign in a political protest on gun violence.

Yeah, I’m sure black kids don’t like dressing up and getting free candy. That’s odd, because I remember lots of black kids dressing up and going Trick or Treating when I was a kid, and last year had several roll up to my door for some candy.

Save for those Woke lunatics that will call your 5 year old son a racist for dressing up as Maui for Halloween, who has ever thought that certain races don’t like Halloween? If anything, I think disproportionately white households dislike Halloween with Pentecostals, Mormons, and Evangelicals not being fans of it thinking it’s a Satanic Pagan holiday.

It’s hilarious how these people don’t know they’re the actual white supremacists, even if they’re self loathing white supremacists. Only major thing they disagree with David Duke on is they think white people are inherently evil. That’s it.

This post was edited on 10/13/21 at 8:57 am