"This country's obsession with the politically correct is really getting out of hand."

Yeah, right. Tolerance gets in the way of you or your kid's consumerist entitlement, and suddenly you're an enemy of cultural sensitivity. You hate it so much, you have lawn jockey and cigar store Indian collections, right?

Those aren't Halloween costumes, this is a photo of the candidates past and present for the 1st congressional district.

Seriously, his argument is that he needs to implement a policy because it worked at a school that's completely and totally different from Buckman in every possible way? Buckman's arguably in the most progressive neighborhood of a very blue city. Its families are predominately well educated and middle class--most of them are also non-immigrants.

Not only does Kelly's large immigrant population make its needs quite different, it's a very poor school---75% of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch. We had much the same thing at Atkinson---our new last year principal decided everyone was poor (some are, plenty aren't) and she'd save us from our "embarassment" of not affording costumes (that we've always beena ble to buy previously). Again, everyone was pissed off.

It's fine that they want to be "inclusive", but this is really about their world view and forcing it on their school's community (Atkinson's principal also disparaged Science Fairs as "elitist") isn't inclusive, it's stubborn---and censorship in an entirely different way.