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School bans Halloween
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow schools have been ordered to ban students from celebrating Halloween despite the widespread popularity of the imported festival to Russia.
Halloween is being forced underground because it "includes religious elements, the cult of death, the mockery of death," a spokesman for the city's education department Alexander Gavrilov said Wednesday. "It's not an attempt to block the celebration of this holiday completely, just in schools and colleges," he added. Pumpkins and images of witches are widespread across Russia, with many bars organizing special fancy dress parties, despite the efforts of the Kremlin, and especially the Russian Orthodox Church, to curb enthusiasm for non-native festivities. "This is destructive for the minds and the spiritual and moral health of pupils," said Gavrilov.
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I say that I don't get behind schools endorsing the event to the point that the regular syllabus is ignored, but hey...as long as it's ok to preach religion and "moral health", then at least acknowledgement of the history of the event and a bit of fun with it, should be able to go down...
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