No more Santa at NY school?

The taxpayer-funded principal, Eujin Jaela Kim, came under fire last week after the New York Post exposed her as the instigator of a politically-correct policy outlawing Thanksgiving, Santa Claus and the Pledge from classrooms at P.S. 169 in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood.

PS 169’s principal Eujin Jaela Kim had banned Santa and anything related to Christmas but the school district has overturned her. However, in a memo to staff this month, PS 169 business manager Johanna Bjorken said that Santa Claus was considered to be in the category of “other religious figure”.

Ferrer told PIX-11 that Thanksgiving would instead be a “harvest festival” and the school’s annual Christmas fundraiser would be a “winter celebration” but couldn’t include jolly ol’ Saint Nick. Not all children celebrate the same holidays.'” According to PTA president Mimi Ferrer, “We definitely can’t say Christmas, nothing with Christmas on it, nothing with Santa.

A Department of Education spokesman told NBC New York, “This principal continues to work closely with her school community to ensure PS 169 is an inclusive school, meet students” and families’ needs, and celebrate the values that make her community and New York City great’.

The newspaper explains that, “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”.

Staffers said Kim also dumped boxes of newly bought reading books in the basement as she preferred another curriculum. Kim, 33, became principal in May 2014.

Iorio also indicates that the Pledge of Allegiance was recited every Monday morning before Kim took over as principal.

But a DOE spokesman told The Post that Santa is allowed as a secular figure.

Many believe that the ban on Santa Claus is particularly harsh. But when Kim arrived, the pledge ended.

Santa was a part of the holidays at PS 169 for years, the Post reports. Teachers at PS 169 state that they were not given a choice.

One of the first things Kim did after becoming principal was buying seven flat-screen smart TVs, for approx. “They have never been used”.