GLOVER, Vt. – Students were looking forward to Glover Community School’s Halloween festivities, from the costumes and pumpkin carving contest to “spider bellies, spider legs, and bones” on the lunch menu.

But school officials recently sent notice to parents that “spider bellies, spider legs, and bones” are gone from the Oct. 31 menu, replaced with boring chicken tenders, French fries, and celery sticks.

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The pumpkin carving contest is gone, as well, and students are now banned from wearing costumes to school because Angelique Brown, the school’s new principal, doesn’t like holidays, The Chronicle reports.

“We need to keep religious celebrations and holidays out of schools,” she said.

The news site reports parents are questioning the ban, but Brown insists on killing in-school celebrations because she contends other schools are doing the same.

While the episode doesn’t seem to be related to the nationwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings and online threats, many other schools across the country are banning students from dressing up as clowns for school Halloween events.

Officials in Oregon, Connecticut, Idaho, Colorado, New Jersey, California, and numerous other states have banned students from dressing up as clowns at school.

New Haven Public Schools banned creepy clowns, as well as any “symbols of terror” amid several clown-related threats posted online targeting schools in the Connecticut district.

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“Until additional information is available, New Haven Public Schools Director of Security Thaddeus Reddish asks that principals and building leaders prohibit clown costumes and any symbols of terror during this Halloween season,” the district wrote in a letter to parents cited by The Washington Post.

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“To ensure student safety, parents are encouraged to assist in ensuring students refrain from these costumes this season.”

Two Birmingham, Michigan elementary schools – Pembroke Elementary School and Beverly Elementary School – are also taking a zero tolerance approach to clown costumes, regardless of who’s wearing them on Halloween, according to Hometown Life.

“In light of the recent ‘clown pranks’ in the area and on the news, clown costumes will not be allowed,” Pembroke principal Susan Crocker wrote in a mass email to parents. “Any adult who shows up dressed as a clown will not be allowed to enter the building and any child dressed as a clown will remain in the office until a change of clothes is brought from home.”

JeffCo Public Schools spokeswoman Diana Wilson told The Denver Channel the Colorado district is leaving it up to individual school principals to decide about a ban, and many are preventing students from coming as clowns because “there has been a lot of fear around this topic.”

“And we have kids that have been legitimately scared at school,” she said. “And that’s not what we want Halloween to be.”

Yet despite the bans, the months long craze of clowns terrorizing students and schools is resulting in record sales for some costume shops.

San Francisco’s Halloween Express told Eye Opener TV sales of evil clown masks are skyrocketing in 2016.

“Clown mask sales are up more than (300 percent) from a year ago the same period online,” said Brad Butler, owner of the national costume chain. “In the top 10, eight of them are ‘evil’ clown masks this season whereas last year, five of the top 10 were ‘evil.’”