Jerry Seinfeld slams Bronx school letting ‘distressed’ kids skip on Election Day

Jerry Seinfeld is slamming his kids’ erstwhile backstage schoolhouse successful the Bronx for allowing “emotionally distressed” students to skip school erstwhile Election Day results are announced.

Psychologists volition besides beryllium disposable during Election Week to precocious schoolers astatine the pricy Ethical Culture Fieldston School successful Riverdale, according to an email sent to the schoolhouse assemblage Thursday and viewed by The New York Times.

Upper schoolhouse main Stacey Bobo said successful the announcement that the $65,000-a-year schoolhouse “will make abstraction to supply students with the enactment they whitethorn need,” careless of who wins the presidency, and that excused absences are permitted the time results are announced. Students volition besides not person homework assigned connected Election Day, nor volition immoderate assessments hap Wednesday.

“This is wherefore the kids hated it,” the titular “Seinfeld” prima and co-creator, 70, told the Times.

Though the New York native and woman Jessica sent their sons, Julian, 21, and Shepherd, 19, to the school, the second transferred successful eighth people to $57,00-a-year Riverdale Country School.

“What benignant of lives person these radical led that makes them deliberation that this is the close mode to grip young people? To promote them to buckle,” said the Emmy winner. “This is the acquisition they are providing, for ungodly sums of money.”

Seinfeld has been outspoken astir his enactment of Israel amid the warfare successful Gaza. The struggle has spurred infighting amongst Ethical Culture students, families, module and alumni. The Times reported successful August that head-of-school Joe Algrant had stepped down arsenic a effect of the tensions.

Earlier this year, Seinfeld faced his ain backlash aft saying helium missed “dominant masculinity” and the societal hierarchy of the second 20th century. Shortly earlier that, helium accused “the utmost near and P.C. crap” of ruining comedy, remarks helium precocious walked back.

“I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the creation of comedy. I did accidental that. That’s not true,” the comedian said during his Oct. 15 quality connected Tom Papa’s “Breaking Bread” podcast.