A to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October has more than 44,000 signatures.
Started three months ago on Change.org, the petition â which says a holiday deserving of a full day shouldnât be crammed into two rushed hours on a weekday evening â is nearing its goal of 50,000 names.
From parents lamenting the chaos of getting home after work and getting kids ready, to teachers stressing out about the sugar-fuelled mayhem they endure the following day, all seem to agree that having Halloween on the weekend only had upsides.
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âI am signing because I am an elementary school teacher. Halloween is massively disruptive to learning when it falls on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Saturday is the perfect day,â wrote one supporter.
Safety was also a theme that ran through the comments.
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âThis makes so much more sense! Parents are racing home in their cars from work while kids are running to their friendsâ houses ⊠itâs a safety concern!â wrote another.
What do you think?
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