I am the new PTO Pres. for my son's school. I just received some papers regarding the school's Fall Festival. I never attended this festival in the past because we do not celebrate Halloween. So as you can imagine, now being the President I am stuck. I want to speak to our principal about having a Fall Festival that doesn't have so much to do with Halloween, but focuses more on being about Fall. We used to have a Halloween Dance but that was canceled due to older students coming dressed inappropiately, DJ's playing inappropiate music, etc. In its place they started a Haunted Hallway. The kids thought it was great, however I have some major concerns. The paperwork I received say we need to post a waiver of responsiblity at the entrance of the Haunted Hallway. This is because some of the kids who got scared threw cellphones, IPods,etc. at the volunteers who were doing the scaring. The volunteers were also kicked and hit. I really don't want to have to deal with the waiver thing, I am considering doing away with this. I would like some ideas on what could be an equally or more fun event for the students. Is it fair for me to change this because I don't agree with this??? I will take this to our meeting for a vote, but I need some help coming up with an alternative.