With Halloween just around the corner, the halls of Jefferson-Morgan are buzzing with costume ideas and party plans. Dressing up is a big part of the Halloween tradition from witches and princesses to pirates and football players, costumes make Halloween fun. Store bought or homemade, costumes have the power to transform you into someone or something completely different even if just for one night.

However, across Pennsylvania, local school districts have stated that students no longer will be allowed to show off their witches, princesses and goblins costumes. As well as canceling their annual Halloween bashes and parades, students are no longer allowed to wear their costumes to school.

The trend has parents fuming and sounding off on social media with rants about administrators attempting, yet again, to sanitize schools and strip them of fun. “I think it’s the kids that suffer,” Sue Dimoff said, whose grandchildren attend Sporting Hill Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, PA,  which last week sent parents a letter informing them that the annual Halloween party and parade of costumes had been canceled. “Obviously safety is a big concern but there are ways to get around it. You don’t have to give up Halloween.”

The tradition that is dressing up in costumes and trick or treating is a sacred thing that should not be a concept that can be taken away from us. Young minds will remember the traumatic event that is having your Halloween taken away from you by the district school boards.

If what schools are worried about is the safety of their younger students from the older students indecency, there are many ways that they can get around that and if they were to actually sit down and listen to what the community has to say they would find that some people have very nice ideas as to how they can avoid that.

Understanding that some girls may pull a Lindsay Lohan as Kady from Mean Girls and others may take a more Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried) route, is the happiness of those like Kady more important than the immaturity of the handful of students like Karen?