NEWINGTON, Conn. – Halloween joins Christmas as a holiday being canceled over fears of it being politically incorrect.

News 8 reports Newington, Connecticut elementary schools are canceling traditional Halloween celebrations “due to concerns that they exclude children whose families don’t celebrate the holiday.”

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Some parents have accused the schools – Anna Reynolds Elementary and Ruth Chaffee Elementary – of bowing to political correctness from a small minority of families at the expense of their own children’s fun.

According to a letter sent to parents, the schools will replace Halloween with “fall- or harvest-themed” celebrations.

Those celebrations may include pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and “Happy Halloween” signs in teacher’s classrooms.

Teachers are permitted to “teach” about the holiday, but the school cannot “celebrate” the holiday.

That would imply an endorsement, according to the news station.

That wasn’t enough to appease some parents who wanted to see their kindergartners and 1st graders in a Halloween parade.

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According to WTNH, certain religious groups, including some Orthodox Jews, Jehovah’s witnesses, and some fundamentalist Christians, prohibit the celebration of Halloween.

In other years, students who did not celebrate Halloween were sent out of their classrooms to other locations in the building, like the library, while the other students had their Halloween events.

The policy created an environment that school officials felt unfairly excluded some students, News 8 reports.

Newington administrators contend “many” Connecticut school districts have created similar policies for the same reason.