No Treats This Halloween At District 35 Schools

This year, Halloween parties in Glencoe's school district 35 will prohibit any food from entering classrooms to protect students with possible food allergies and teach students other ways of celebrating the holiday, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

Instead of swapping candy, "the students will be working on giving-back stations, where they are actually doing something nice for someone else," Catherine Wang, the district's director of curriculum and instruction told the Chicago Tribune. 

This doesn't mean costumes are prohibited too, in addition to the traditional Halloween parade, kids in kindergarten through fourth grade at Glencoe's South and West schools will be making crafts that will be donated to a children's hospital, according to the Chicago Tribune.