Jerry Seinfeld slams his kids’ old school for allowing ‘distressed’ students take election day off

Jerry Seinfeld has blasted his children’s former private school after they said they would release “emotionally distressed” children the day after the election.

Children who attend the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which costs $65,540 a year in tuition, will be allowed to excuse themselves from classes next Thursday.

In an email titled “Election Day Support,” Upper School Director Stacey Bobo said he “recognizes that this can be an exciting and emotional time for them.”

The email, seen by The New York Timesadded: ‘Regardless of the election outcome, [the school] there is room to offer students the support they need.’

Speaking to the Times, the 70-year-old comedian said it was decisions like these that irritated his family and forced him to transfer his son.

The school, seen here, has said it will allow children to be excused from classes next week due to the election

In an email, upper school principal Stacey Bobo, seen here, said it “recognizes that this can be an exciting and emotional time for them.”

He said, “This is why the kids hated it. What kind of lives have these people led that makes them think this is the right way to interact with young people?

‘To encourage them to nod. This is the lesson they are teaching us, for ungodly amounts of money.”

Parent John Couchman, who has two daughters at the school, told the Times he thought the school’s plan was sensible.

He said: ‘I think this is absolutely the right decision. These students are very astute. “I think their rights are at stake, whether it’s on election night or five years from now, and they know it.”

The email further stated that no homework would be assigned on Election Day and that no assessments would take place on Wednesday.

Absences will be allowed on Wednesdays or whenever the full election results are announced, for students who cannot ‘fully participate in classes’.

The outlet reported that the school had recorded lectures from the Child Mind Institute about the election and helping children with “election-related anxiety.”

The school, which has two campuses in the city, is home to about 1,700 students and was divided over pro-Palestinian activism earlier this year.

That behavior led to the resignation of the school’s principal, Joe Algrant, in August, with the schools saying he left to “pursue other personal and professional goals.”

Absences will be allowed on Wednesdays or whenever the full election results are announced, for students who cannot ‘fully participate in classes’

The school, which has two campuses in the city, is home to about 1,700 students and was divided over pro-Palestinian activism earlier this year.

Parents had accused the school of being a ‘hotbed of Jew-hatred’, with Dr. Logan Levkoff said her son experienced anti-Semitism when he attended the school.

The sex and relationship expert claimed her son was called an “ethnic cleanser” and “colonizer” during his college days.

When her son organized a Holocaust survivor to speak, Levkoff claimed in a post on Instagram that a group of students tried to “cancel” the event.

In January 2020, teacher JB Brager was fired for criticizing Israel in the classroom and on their personal X account.

At a November 2019 meeting, guest speaker Kayum Ahmed, director of the philanthropic organization Open Society Foundations, compared what Jews endured during the Holocaust to violence against Palestinians in Israel.

‘I use the same example when I talk about the Holocaust. That the Jews who suffered the Holocaust and who today founded the State of Israel continue the violence against the Palestinians,” Ahmed said.

A spokesperson for the school previously told DailyMail.com: ‘We do not tolerate anti-Semitism and oppose all forms of hatred.’