Inside the A-list private school blasted by Jerry Seinfeld for woke stance on 'election stress'

An elite, celebrity-loved backstage schoolhouse has recovered itself successful basking h2o aft comedian Jerry Seinfeld blasted it for saying it would let 'emotionally distressed' kids to return nan time aft nan election off. 

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which has 3 locations crossed New York City, became embroiled successful ungraded earlier this week aft nan New York Times obtained an email sent retired by main Stacey Bobo that said students could excuse themselves from classes next Thursday.

The connection near Jerry, 70, outraged, who told nan publication that his 2 sons had attended nan schoolhouse but that his youngest, Shepherd, now 19, had transferred distant owed to 'decisions for illustration this one.'

And this isn't nan first clip that nan institution has recovered itself successful nan midst of controversy, arsenic it has endured eyebrow-raising comments made by teachers, accusations of bullying, and awesome activity changes successful caller years.  

But moreover so, it has go a favourite among nan wealthy, acknowledgment to its 'progressive' school style and 'inclusive' structure.

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School prides itself connected its dedication to school kids  really to 'be ethical and responsible members of society' - but it comes astatine a steep price, costing astir $65,000 a twelvemonth successful tuition.

It requires each of its students to enroll successful morals courses from an early property truthful they tin go prepared to 'take attraction of our world, ourselves, and each other.'

'Our extremity is to create a broad acquisition for students to prosecute successful activism, centered astir raising awareness, advocating for societal issues, engaging pinch work projects, and supporting causes wrong nan surrounding organization and beyond,' its website reads.

'Our tenets of progressive acquisition attraction connected nan full child, ensuring that acquisition is responsive, relevant, experiential, and playful, among different traits.'

The institution - which teaches kids from pre-K to 12th people crossed 2 campuses successful Manhattan and 1 successful nan Bronx and presently has astir 1,700 students - first started in 1878, and has had a slew of celebrated faces locomotion done its hallways.

Numerous Hollywood legends, successful entrepreneurs, and powerful leaders person attended nan school, including actresses Rita Gam and Louise Lasser, erstwhile lawman politician of NYC Patricia Harris, and Star Trek alum Walter Koenig.

In addition, actor Zach McGowan, New York State Senator Dan Squadron, Oscar-nominated movie editor Andrew Weisblum, and New York State Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright are amongst its alumni.

The schoolhouse besides encourages its students to 'continually research their identity' and holds monthly 45-minute meetings truthful nan kids can 'talk astir race, ethnicity, and ethics.'

'We are proud to beryllium 1 of nan only schools successful New York City to commencement these conversations astatine specified an early age,' nan schoolhouse said. 

'Supporting children successful their consciousness of each other’s similarities and differences and connecting them positively to their ain personality is basal successful helping them turn into confident, compassionate, and patient young adults.'

In addition, it has a 'robust' creation programme and offers 'training' in acting, dance, directing, choreography, stagecraft, design, writing, drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and architecture, among different things.

For those willing successful music, there's classes connected 'electronic music, euphony theory, and composition, arsenic good arsenic a assortment of small- and large-group performing ensembles.'

The schoolhouse holds yearly manner shows, wherever immoderate of nan kids are tasked pinch making their ain dresses - but aren't allowed to usage fabric.

Instead, they're forced to move family objects into manner pieces, and nan arena antecedently caught nan attraction of Teen Vogue, who gushed that location wasn't an quiet spot disposable aft attending 1 of nan yearly shows.

But the private schoolhouse has surely had its adjacent stock of antagonistic property arsenic well.

Back successful 2019, nan schoolhouse came nether occurrence aft impermanent speaker Kayum Ahmed, a head astatine nan Open Society Foundations philanthropic organization, compared what Jews endured during nan Holocaust to unit against Palestinians successful Israel during an assembly.

A spokesperson for nan schoolhouse told DailyMail.com afterwards: 'We do not tolerate antisemitism and guidelines against each forms of hate.'

Then, successful January 2020, a coach was fired for criticizing Israel successful people and connected their individual X account.

Earlier this year, nan schoolhouse became engulfed in 'infighting among parents, students, module and alumni' complete pro-Palestine activism, the New York Times reported. 

Parents accused nan schoolhouse of being a 'hotbed of Jew-hate,' pinch 1 mom, named Dr. Logan Levkoff, claiming that her boy knowledgeable anti-Semitism while attending nan school.

She said that he was called an 'ethnic cleanser' and 'colonizer' during his clip arsenic a student. 

Amidst nan tension, nan caput of nan schoolhouse Joe Algrant resigned successful August, pinch schoolhouse officials saying astatine nan clip that he near to 'pursue different individual and master goals.'