THE FOLLOWING IS A TRUE STORY

NOTE : This is the full AP text with my comments attached in bold below the story lines.

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Costumes Political Figures, Latex Among Items Banned For Various Reasons

This is the headline.  Banning latex? In a school? Are we trying to stop female teachers of 9th graders from.... never mind.

(AP) There will be as many standards for Halloween costumes today as there are schools in Illinois.

OK, this ought to be interesting.

At West Elementary School in north suburban Glencoe, princesses and superheroes will walk the halls. But there will be no Richard Nixons or George Bushes. 

Not allowing Republicans? In a state run school? Wow that never happens!  Say, what if a kid shows up dressed as Nancy Pelosi? Would she (sorry "he/she" it is Pelosi) be allowed to claim that they were, in fact, dressed as an imaginary superhero?

This is because school administrators have banned costumes depicting political figures, calling them inappropriate for 8- to 10-year-olds. 

But 'Billy has two Mommies' is required reading correct?  It is duly noted the story says 'costumes' and not 'condoms'.

Many schools prohibit costumes, while some elementary schools allow only preschool and kindergarten students to dress up. 

If I came dressed up as a cheerleader?  The mini-skirt kind? Just asking.

Masks are generally prohibited at schools that allow the bizarre on Halloween, as are fake weapons. Hatchets coming out of heads are also frowned upon. 

Whew! Glad to know hatchets in the head are frowned upon, otherwise I mighta made that mistake with the 4th grader this year.

At Naperville Central High School, latex is a no-no. There is a student and a custodian at the school with a life-threatening latex allergy. 

OK, that's a new one on me.  Sure it's nasty to have that allergy, just saying it's a new one on me.

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Well that was different.  Good to see there are people actually worried about a dress code aside from a "pro America" t-shirt which would, obviously, be banned.

Sadly the idea of dressing up for Halloween in any school ought to be outright banned these days.

As a parent I would have issues with fake guns on campus too.  Simply because if you haven't seen a fake gun recently, trust me, sometimes it's extremley hard to tell the difference between fake and real.

Yep another American tradition down the hole.  And to think all we worried to death about was razor blades in apples. 

Offer a kid an apple these days and you won't be met with literal disgust as much as stunned ignorance.

"Trick or Treat! Hey what's that?"

"An Apple"

"Uh.. lady... newsflash.. Apple is a computer.. duh".

Now that we have that Halloween issue settled in the 'burbs of Chicago.  Back to our original programming.

Banning Christmas in schools.