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Banned at the schoolhouse door: pint-size ghosts and goblins | csmonitor.com

Schools across the country are banishing Halloween celebrations for a variety of reasons, including “political correctness” agitators who think the holiday is unfair to poor students, but mostly, it appears, due to strongly religious parents who object to the “satanic” roots of the holiday and choose to (or threaten to) keep their children home from school.