Schools in our area are averse to allowing students to wear their Halloween costumes to school. Their brilliant solution to children with costumes and treats on the brains is to have students dress as a book character or a dead author or a career that interests them. This might be a fun assignment if parents weren’t really being asked to come up with yet another Halloween costume. Can we please let students wear their Halloween costumes and save the bonus dress-up day for any week other than the last week of October?