The Tablet May 5, 2021
A statue of Christopher Columbus stands in the plaza in front of the New York State Supreme Court building in downtown Brooklyn. (File photo)
WINDSOR TERRACE In a move that caused heads to spin, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) eliminated Columbus Day from its list of official school holidays, replaced it with Indigenous People’s Day, and then abruptly changed course again when faced with a backlash.
Columbus Day, which falls this year on Monday, Oct. 11, will now be known by the double moniker of “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.”
Despite the last-minute inclusion of Italian Heritage, the fallout from the DOE’s Columbus controversy shows no signs of abating any time soon.
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News of the planned school safety hires surfaced during a City Council hearing last week, when Kenyatte Reid, the executive director of the Education Department’s Office of Safety and Youth Development, sharply criticized the move.
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As students disembarked yellow buses at socially distanced stops Monday morning outside Southside Occupational Academy High School, a staff member took their temperatures with a handheld scanner. Once cleared, each