Story: Many schools avoid Halloween candy and costumes
Candy? Makes kids fat. Costumes? Too distracting. Fun? Certainly not in my school. Schools, with the help of finicky parents, have gradually started removing anything interesting or creative about going to class. Pretty much everything that we might associate with childhood, some one has found a way to make it seem too offensive, inappropriate, or dangerous for schools. And yet we still sit around scratching our heads to why education is failing?
