School events in Kawagoeland

In Kawagoeland, there are a number of school events. The most famous school event in Kawagoeland is school Halloween parades.

## Book Week

Book Week (Japanese: 本の週 *Hon no shū*; Mandarin Chinese: 图书周 *Túshū zhōu*; Dutch: *Boekenweek*) is an event held in primary schools of Kawagoeland. During Book Week in Kawagoeland, kids get creative in other ways, as the dress-up parades are reserved for Halloween or Carnival. Students in Book Week draw a picture of their favourite book character, write their own story or doing some book illustrations or making a short video explaining why they like a book. Also, each class could read out their favourite book to the school.

## Halloween

The most famous of Kawagoeland's school events is Halloween parades, which, is held on 28, 29 or 30 October (depending on the year), on every school in the South and West portions around Kawagoeland. Since 1968, joining the dress-up parade is compulsory up until Grade 10, and becomes voluntary from Grade 11 to Grade 12, with Grade 13 students not joining at all.

Because students in most schools in the USA today cannot dress up to celebrate Halloween, this makes Kawagoeland the last remaining country with a long tradition of Halloween to continue to do so. Kawagoeland has never removed Halloween in many schools, and as a result, many students still do dress-ups.

In schools of magic, the approach to this celebration is different. Students have a Council Party instead, often consuming foods such as Witch's Fried Rice and Ryuji Cake. Students will then get a raffle ticket to see who is the best witch or wizard.

### Parties

Compulsory for students between Lower Prep and Grade 2 and voluntary Grade 3 onwards up to Grade 12, many schools in the Southwest portion, especially Hakone, throw Halloween parties.

While Halloween parties in schools became a thing of the past in America, Kawagoeland, however, retains Halloween parties in schools. However, they are in less numbers starting from Grade 6 onwards.

## Little Halloween

This celebration mainly exists in schools of magic, but some non-magic schools (mainly those from Hakone) have Little Halloween. This celebration typically occurs on 15 November (in some years 13 or 14 November). Little Halloween is forked from the Chinese Lantern Festival and concludes the Kawagoenese Halloween season. While Halloween involves costumes, Little Halloween involves Kawagoenese orange-light cylinder lanterns, often written in Japanese using hiragana-only, as well as barbecue.

Americans do not celebrate this holiday. Enchancians also have this version of Little Halloween but set nine days earlier.

## Carnival

Carnival, which occurs in the period February to March, is favoured instead of Halloween, in schools located in North and East portions in Kawagoeland.

Beginning in 1969, students between Lower Prep and Grade 10 are compulsory to join the Carnival parade at school, with voluntary parades between Grade 11 and Grade 12.

## Christmas

This is not a common celebration in Kawagoenese schools. In Kawagoenese schools where they have Christmas celebrations, it must be celebrated in a different way.

## Human rights

Kawagoeland is petty and notorious in terms of student rights for sending students into detentions for not joining Halloween parades unless he or she got an exemption. An American student from Buffalo, New York, discovered the videos of students of the Totsuki High School, most of which are from Grade 9, being sent into detention for not joining the Halloween parade which is compulsory in Kawagoeland (not voluntary), and reviewing that "Kawagoeland is too strict."

While the non-magic education system of Kawagoeland is normally the same as Finland, Kawagoeland has been described as "too authoritarian" in terms of Halloween parades by many of Americans of Grades 6 to 9. The reason for Kawagoeland's decision to keep both the Halloween parade and the Halloween party so that students can learn on how to celebrate Halloween in Kawagoeland properly.