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Evan & Tiki

Parents Revolt After NYC Schools Cross the Line

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Parents officially lose it after learning New York schools are starting before Labor Day. Evan, Tiki, and Shaun react in real time to the calendar shocker, threaten a full-scale parent boycott, and argue why the Northeast has one sacred rule you do not break. The conversation spirals into vacation chaos, NFL timing, snow days that never happen, and why this decision feels like a direct attack on families who plan their lives around that final summer week.

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0:00.0

Okay, I have two kids.

0:02.1

Tiki has a million kids.

0:04.3

Sean's got two beautiful young daughters, and they all go to school.

0:08.3

I have never seen in my life what I just saw as an email I got about the next school year.

0:16.8

I have just been informed that the first day of school is prior to Labor Day.

0:24.6

What?

0:26.1

Prior.

0:27.0

Wait, in New York?

0:28.3

In New York, which I have never seen.

0:30.7

It has never happened where I grew up or where my kids have gone to school.

0:34.3

But because Labor Day is late this year, it's Monday, September 8th, the first day of school is Wednesday, September 2nd, and I'm telling you this right now, until my wife talks me out of it, they're not going. It's the last week for people to go away. Of course! Wow. You can't do that. That's some Florida crap. I wonder if it's in New Jersey as well.

0:55.7

Have you gotten the school schedule yet?

0:57.2

I have not gotten a school schedule.

0:58.7

But that last week, you know, I'm always gone.

1:01.1

I know.

1:01.4

Because once football starts, I can't go anywhere.

1:03.9

And so we take that last week and we go somewhere.

1:08.3

This is a simple American rule.

1:09.8

In the Northeast, school coincides

1:12.0

with the NFL. When the NFL starts, we start. That's right. Here's a deal. And I think you guys will be locked up with me. Hopefully your wives are. We're not going. Boycotting. We're boycotting. You want to start school before Labor Day? That's cool. You can start it. We ain't going. We're not sending our kids. First day doesn't mean anything anyway. First three days. I mean, come on.

1:29.6

I mean, come on.

1:41.6

How could you? Now, I've heard this because like my sister lives in Florida and they start school in the middle of August. So I've heard this. I know it exists. I'm not foreign to it. I'm foreign to it in terms of it being here. But why did why what's the reasoning?

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