Culture
America Has a Halloween Costume Equity Gap
Not all parents can—or want to—invest time and resources into ever-more-elaborate observances of this holiday. Should it matter?
“For Halloween, you have to make a costume.”
This was the warning given to me by a mother as we waited in line to sign our children up for weekend classes in Manhattan. As we chatted, we discovered that my daughter would be entering kindergarten at the small diverse public school in East Harlem that her son had been attending for three years. I asked her if there was anything I should know; she offered a few observations about academics, and then, the Halloween warning. It was late August.