Vermont School District Cancels Halloween Classroom Celebrations

BURLINGTON, Vt. (CBS Local) — There will be no costumes, capes or candy in Burlington, Vermont, classrooms this year. The school district has cancelled all classroom Halloween celebrations.
School district officials say some students don’t participate in Halloween events because their families do not celebrate the holiday.
“It’s not that we are teaching that Halloween is a bad thing,” Miriam Ehtesham-Cating, the district’s director of programs, told CBS affili