Squeezing All the Fun Out of School
My daughter, Ellen, age 9, brought home a 2-sided flyer from school the other day. Here it is: Also coupled with a “no cupcake” school policy, my daughter’s costume actually made it through the above check-point-standards. Ellen is going to be a genie for Halloween, but she has to put on her costume in the school lavatory sometime around "noonish," tomorrow, anyway, because she isn’t allowed to wear it to school. OK. Not a big deal. While Halloween certainly shouldn’t be t