Last night was quieter than most of its kind. Children were a minimum in the streets and homes’s candy baskets were overflowing with candy at the end of the night. In past years, young ones in costumes would have been collecting all the candy possible, so why was it different this year?

Many attribute it to the weather.The high last night was a mere 36 degrees around 6:00pm and temperatures reached below freezing as the night progressed. Indeed, the cold weather keeps many children in who are too young to brave it, however, past chills have not deterred the majority of children.

In October of 2009, the weather was a light snow and fog with a low of 37 degrees as children were trick or treating. Likewise in 2014, Oct. 31st had temperatures of 45 degrees with a light drizzle. It does appear that the temperature of this year are lower than years past but not significantly.

This fact poses the question of the tradition of trick or treating. Do children still enjoy the holiday’s activity? Are parents worrisome of the dangers of traveling to houses alone?

There can be a multitude of answers to the lack of trick or treaters this year, yet students at BV West are disappointed in the lack of participation this year. As many high school students are responsible for handing out candy, a large sum noticed a lack of visitors.

“It’s upsetting that kids are more interested in technology and phones than actually getting outside and doing things that you can only do as a kid.” Senior Molly Saporito said.

Students like Saporito are upset by the fact and worry that technology is the cause of the minimum participation. Others worry about the omission of the tradition entirely in the future.

“By the time we have kids trick or treating probably won’t even be a thing,” senior Morgan Scheerer said.

Senior Anh Nguyen and her brother David, were not afraid of the cold temperature. The siblings enjoyed the night and collected a large sum of candy