While public schools in the Five Towns, and local yeshivas, are taking measures to combat antisemitism in their academic environments, Richard Altabe, the lower school principal at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, says that more should have been done sooner.
“If every school district around us is doing something to help them,” Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education Trustee Shari Amitrano said at a June 14 board meeting, referring to the students in other districts, “why would we not consider doing the same?”
A questionnaire distributed to students in two Woodmere Middle School seventh-grade classrooms has outraged many parents in the district, leading them to threaten to cast “no” votes in next month’s vote on the school budget.