This will be appealed, I'm sure and will not stand. This is how corrupt NY State has become.
I attended Public School in NYC in the 60s & 70s, in Manahttan. Well do I remember singing in the Chorus, led by a Jewish Teacher, and we sang The Hallelujah Chorus, amoung many other "religious" works. He always used "Silent Night" as an audition song, he said "Everyone knows it and the range is useful for this purpose". He was very good, he always strove to include more Old Testament themed Choral works (we had a largely Jewish student population), too bad he didn't have better singers to work with than us!
He also put up a GREAT (for Jr. High School) production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, an unjustly overlooked work by Andrew Lloyd Weber. You should have seen the kid he got to play the Pharoh/Elvis role, the biggest hoodlum in the school, and he was GREAT!
Guess this couldn't happen today....such a shame.
Interestingly the lone dissenting judge Chester Straub was appointed by Clinton whereas the author of the courts' opinion judge Reena Raggi was appointed by George W. Bush (and before that she was appointed district court judge by Reagan).
Plus judge Straub, although beeing Clinton appointee, is on the right side not for the first time.