A Top Costume in the City: The Invisible Student. Each year in New York City, public school attendance plummets on Halloween. This year, the fears were of a particularly nasty projectile: the frozen egg wrapped in foil. By David M. Herszenhorn. [New York Times: Education]
Ah, Halloween at school! We have been fortunate to have evaded the egg-throwing thing for the last few years, thanks to a policy of searching every book bag that enters the school on that day (and this school-year we've gone to a transparent bookbag-only policy, which helps). I remember my first year, an egg screaming through the doorway of my classroom, nearly grazing the head of a student, and thumping hard against the wall. I learned then to keep the door locked on that particular day, and not give hall passes for anything. I should have listened to my students the preceding day who had expressed that they were not going to come to school on Halloween "because the [American kids] throw eggs."
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