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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 04:18 PM
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Parents, kids protest `no Halloween`
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Sep 30, 2006, 20:18 GMT

SOUTH ELGIN, IL, United States (UPI) -- About 60 parents and children gathered at the South Elgin, Ill., home of a principal who canceled the elementary school`s annual Halloween celebration.

Dressed in Halloween costumes and carrying signs with frowning ghosts and jack-o-lanterns, they chanted 'Save Halloween' as TV cameras rolled, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald reported.

Jacqueline Hazen, in her first year as principal, said she canceled the Halloween celebration because some parents complained about its pagan origins.

She said the school would hold a 'fall celebration' instead ..

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1206903.php/Parents_kids_protest_%60no_Halloween%60
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