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A Pennsylvania mom is slamming her local school district for canceling its annual Halloween parades over safety and inclusivity concerns. Administrators in the Lower Merion School District, located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, sent emails to families at all six of its elementary schools last week saying the parades, which date back over 50 years, will not happen this year. "Somebody was offended.
So they're trying to take away our Halloween parade. And it's just another thing in this weird cancel culture era that we're living in," Lower Merion School District parent Linda Joseph told "America's Newsroom" Wednesday. Kids in Halloween costumes (iStock) Officials cited security concerns and the well-being of students who do not celebrate Halloween.
Children will still be able to dress up in costumes and participate in fall-themed activities in classrooms on the 31st, the district said. "To anyone who's offended or does not want their children to participate… keep your kid home that day, don't rain on everyone else's parade," Joseph responded. Joseph added that banning Halloween parades is "ridiculous" because students have had other privileges taken away from them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We fought so hard for our kids just to be able to breathe freely," she said of mask mandates in classrooms. "So much has already been removed and taken away from our children. And we're just starting to get back to some sense of normalcy.
And now they do this." Joseph fears future holiday celebrations will suffer the same fate as the Halloween parades. "I don't think it's going to end here… next year someone is going to be offended by Valentine's Day and then it's going to be Christmas. So my question is, where does this end?"
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Jimmy Eat World have shared their new single ‘Place Your Debts’ – you can listen to the track below.Self-produced by the band, the song follows on from the four-piece’s June single ‘Something Loud’ and its subsequent acoustic rearrangement, which arrived in September.‘Place Your Debts’ was written by Jimmy Eat World in collaboration with Clark Baechle (The Faint) and Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos). “The ‘debt’ you rack up is the time you spend avoiding doing the work to know yourself,” frontman Jim Adkins explained in a statement.“You buy an ending every time you start something, and the cost is determined by how closely you pay attention to your personal condition,” he added.A video for ‘Place Your Debts’, which you can watch below, has also arrived today (October 19).Directed by and starring Adkins, the clip was filmed throughout the UK, US and Europe during the band’s recent tour.“It’s a series of many, many edits of me singing to the camera,” the frontman explained.
Laura Ingraham questioned whether Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman or even the president himself are adept to be in office Friday on "The Ingraham Angle." If you're thinking, let's say, of putting an addition on your house, maybe renovating your kitchen, would you trust John Fetterman to review the bids and negotiate with the builders? And for that matter, would you trust Joe Biden to hire the best team to get the job done? Pennsylvania Lt. Gov.
Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz said on "America's Newsroom" he believes Black voters in the state are increasingly rejecting Democrat John Fetterman's policies. Oz said the people in Philadelphia are not "having it" in regard to heroin injection sites, supported by Fetterman. He responded to a new Fox News poll showing Fetterman leading among non-White voters 52-24%.
At a small general store in a tiny Pennsylvania township, a husband and wife are worried they're the last shopkeepers of their kind. Centermoreland Grocery & Deli is a small, family-owned general store in the heart of its namesake town — Centermoreland, Pennsylvania. The store is owned by married couple Alan and Sharlene Weidner. Running a community shop that sticks to business practices it invented a century ago is difficult, but the duo has no plans to retire. And while the Weidners love it, they fear their historic shop won't be protected after they're gone.
A disability advocate told Buzzfeed News on Wednesday that NBC's interview with Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman will increase "violence" against disabled people. "The way Burns handled that interview will only worsen attitudes and violence towards disabled people in a time when virtual accommodations are being removed left and right after they were implemented overnight in 2020," Charis Hill told the outlet. Hill called on NBC to apologize for "overt discrimination." NBC reporter Dasha Burns' interview with Fetterman aired on Tuesday. While previewing the interview on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports", Burns said Fetterman had "a hard time understanding what he’s hearing." Fetterman used closed-captioning during the interview. John Fetterman, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and Democratic senate candidate, speaks during a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.
Parents are chiming in and speaking out as one school district in Pennsylvania has announced it's canceling its annual Halloween parades for elementary students due to safety and "inclusivity" concerns. Dominique Izbicki, a resident of Montgomery County, told Fox News Digital she doesn't agree with the decision. "Generally, I'm just disappointed that we are taking an approach to inclusivity as trying to go down to the lowest common denominator rather than trying to celebrate all cultures, all religions and all views for our kids," said Izbicki.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman has helped release at least 10 convicts serving life sentences for first-degree murder.
Tony Lundy is sitting on one of three chrome stools at Hocky Brothers auto parts store on Braddock Avenue, waiting to find out how much it will cost to fix his car. Dressed in work clothes from the plant he works at nine miles down the river in Pittsburgh, the 61-year-old has called Braddock home for most of his life. Lundy fondly recalls growing up as one of 13 children surrounded by this once-vibrant community. "The town was the place to be," Lundy said.
for a nationwide abortion ban. Or maybe the governor of to your state without warning, where you have no infrastructure or preparation to aid them, and you would like that to change.The outcome of the midterms this year is going to affect everybody in every state.
President Joe Biden has called on three Los Angeles City Council members to resign over the remarks that were made in a leaked audio recording.
A Pennsylvania day care likely did not have a carbon monoxide detector – nor was it required to – during a gas leak Tuesday that sickened more than two dozen children and adults, officials said. Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk told reporters Tuesday afternoon that he was under the impression that Happy Smiles Learning Center did not have carbon monoxide monitors, though the fire marshal was still investigating. Tuerk said all those effected during the gas leak are in stable condition.
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Tuesday that inflation and immigration issues have a "Republican framing" and that the GOP has "misjudged" the abortion debate. While discussing Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and immigration, Hostin dismissed inflation and immigration as central issues in the upcoming midterm elections and argued abortion would have a greater political impact. "I reject the framing that the issue here really is about immigration and the issue here is about inflation because that’s a Republican framing. Really, the issue here is that the Republicans misjudged the abortion debate.They misjudged it, and it has serious traction in competitive races for the House and the Senate," Hostin said. "By 51% to 32%, battleground state voters say Republicans are more extreme on abortion than Democrats.
Election Day is less than two months away—but one key race won’t be on most ballots.They’re school board elections, and that’s a big problem for families nationwide. In 37 states, school board elections aren’t held in conjunction with statewide or national elections.This strange system was deliberately created to give special interests an advantage, since voter turnout is much lower at other times of the year.That’s especially concerning at a time when parents are demanding greater control over their kids’ education. For the sake of democracy and accountability, states should move these critical elections to coincide with regular election days.
Multiple children at a Pennsylvania day care were sickened Tuesday morning after carbon monoxide leaked in the building, according to a local report. The incident happened at Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown, fire Capt.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman cast a crucial vote that led to the release of a man convicted of first-degree murder in the 1969 killing of an elderly woman.
New York Magazine dismissed media concerns about Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's health in a glossy profile piece that argued the Democratic Senate candidate's "vulnerability" was actually a strength.
The founder of one of the only polling organizations to predict Donald Trump's 2016 victory said Philadelphia's skyrocketing crime rate combined with revelations about Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's work schedule and left-wing politics are narrowing key statewide contests.
Democratic operatives are reportedly behind dozens of outlets presenting themselves as local news websites while pushing pro-Democratic Party content. A network of approximately 51 separate U.S. news sites have disguised themselves with local names in order to push politically advantageous reports under the guise of regional journalism, according to Axios. The individual sites are held under the umbrella of a for-profit company called Local Report Inc, which was first incorporated in Florida in 2021. Each site boasts numerous articles and editorial contribution from The American Independent, a progressive media group started by Media Matters co-founder David Brock, Axios reports.
A Pittsburgh-area school district reversed course after receiving backlash for suspending a high school biology and anatomy teacher who reportedly refused to comply with the school's preferred pronoun policy. Pennsylvania teacher Daren Cusato of the South Side Area School District was suspended last week after he reportedly told school officials that he would not follow a new district mandate requiring teachers address students by their preferred pronouns, because it violated his religious beliefs. People gather to protest different issues including the board’s handling of a sexual assault that happened in a school bathroom in May, vaccine mandates and critical race theory during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2021.