Update to this Sanity ‐ and Santa ‐ have been restored at a Brooklyn public elementary school where St. Nick was banned, the Pledge of Allegiance was dropped and Thanksgiving was replaced with a "harvest festival."
The good news arrived at PS 169 in Sunset Park on Monday morning, a day after The Post exposed the bizarre PC extremism of Principal Eujin Jaela Kim.
"Jeeeebus, am I required to monitor all you commie kids?"
| It's nice to see that central school board administrators can still be shamed by adverse publicity -- wonder how much longer that will be the case... |
"Do it right. Stick it in her face"
As The Post reported on Sunday, the pledge hadn't been said over the loudspeakers since the beginning of the school year. Kim, 33, became principal in May 2014.
"whoops"
Santa Claus is now reinstated at the school, and Department of Education officials said on Monday that the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited over the PA system every morning, in response to concerns from the community.
"It never would have happened if The Post didn't do the story. That's the only way we got our voices heard," PTA president Mimi Ferrer said.
Sunlight on roaches
"I'm ecstatic that Santa can come back. Hopefully, he can make a visit to the kids in our school for our winter celebration on Thursday."
At a school leadership team meeting last week, Kim told staffers, "Do not celebrate Christmas, do not celebrate gift-gifting, do not celebrate Santa. We need to be respectful," according to a school source.
of....?
"Christmas is a Christian celebration and something that is tied to religion," Kim told them, according to the source.
DOE officials said on Monday that PS 169 administrators were mistaken in believing that Santa could not be used as a holiday symbol.
| Happens all the time. Why, the past one hundreds they've been unwilling to ... oh, right, this is the first time. |
"We work to foster inclusive communities in our schools that welcome students and families, and celebrate the diverse values and traditions of all New Yorkers," DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye said in a statement.
| "We will foster inclusiveness for everyone except for the majority community, which we will insult, scorn and exclude!" |
Officials said the school emailed staffers new guidelines on Monday allowing the use of Santa Claus "as a holiday symbol with secular dimensions."
"I apologize for any confusion this may have caused," Kim wrote in the email.
She said, through her clenched resignation papers
| "I apologize for any confusion" is NOT an apology. We weren't confused in the least. |