Principal Stacey Bobo sent an email on Thursday to parents of students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private pre-K-12th grade school in New York City, detailing what school officials were doing to protect children from Election Day.
“No matter the election outcome,” Bobo wrote, the school will “create space to provide students with the support they may need.”
To create a safe space for children, the school was not giving out homework on Election Day, the email said. Nor would students be counted absent if they chose not to attend school on Wednesday (or whichever day results are announced).
Many people took issue with the school’s decision, including comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who had previously pulled his youngest son from Fieldston over his displeasure with the school’s culture.
“This is why the kids hated it,” Seinfeld told the New York…
