School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches

ABC News: School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches

A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.

A letter sent home to parents Wednesday said there will be no observance of Halloween in any of the district's schools.

The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.

The Wiccan, or Pagan, religion is said to be growing in the United States and there are Wiccan groups in Puyallup.

It's a good job that these wiccans don't live in other parts of the world.