A report states that Eujin Jaela Kim, a public school principal in Brooklyn, has banned virtually all celebrations that run afoul of far-left political correctness.
From the New York Post:
Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties.
New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.
“We definitely can’t say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa,” PTA president Mimi Ferrer said administrators told her. “No angels. We can’t even have a star because it can represent a religious system, like the Star of David.”
Kim, 33, did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment.
A memo last month from assistant principal Jose Chaparro suggested a “harvest festival instead of Thanksgiving or a winter celebration instead of a Christmas party.” He urged staff to “be sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays.”
Ninety-five percent of the 1,600 kids at PS 169 are Asian or Hispanic.
In a recent directive to all schools, the city Department of Education said it permits holiday symbols including Christmas trees, kinaras (candleholders for Kwanzaa), dreidels, Hanukkah menorahs and the Islamic star-and- crescent. Displays that “depict images of deities, religious figures or religious texts” are prohibited.
In a memo to staff this month, PS 169 business manager Johanna Bjorken added: “In case you are wondering about grey areas: Santa Claus is considered an ‘other religious figure.’”
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This is hysterical. They’re talking about my elementary school here. (P.S. 169)
If Eujin Jaela Kim has a problem with American customs and traditions, maybe she should move her gook ass back to Korea.
I’d like to take that girl and hang her treasonous head from a tree. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
I’m so sick of this COMMIE, politically correct bullshit that’s destroying this country left and right every day. My movie theater can’t even say, “MERRY CHRISTMAS” anymore and has to say “HAPPY HOLIDAYS” for fear of getting sued.
I don’t give a rats ass! I continue to say, “MERRY CHRISTMAS” to the customers. F**K THEM if they don’t like it. GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY, YOU COMMIE PIECES OF SHIT!!
You aren’t going to use our FREEDOM OF SPEECH RIGHTS against us, you Commie trash!