‘Disgusted’ at Barr, students say nix honor

Angry Horace Mann students and alums are pushing the exclusive private school to rescind its “distinguished achievement” award for Attorney General William Barr over his role in the crackdown on racial justice protesters.

A petition started by two students at the prestigious Riverdale school calls on the alumni council to scrap the 2011 award after Barr ordered a Washington, D.C., park cleared of peaceful protesters so President Trump could stage a photo op.

“This was a callous and despicable act demonstrating a clear disregard for our democratic values of free speech and racial justice,” wrote teenagers Jessica Rosberger and Kiara Royer, who just graduated from the school.

“Barr should not be held as a model member of our community because of his disgraceful actions,” they added.

In just a few days, the change.org petition has caught fire and drawn more than 7,500 signatures. Many of the signatories are outraged staff and alumni, who quaintly call themselves HM’ers. It also started a furious debate over Trump’s acolyte among graduates, many of whom loosely stay in contact with classmates. “Barr’s behavior is inhuman, and he brings shame to all institutions that helped to shape him,” said Stephanie Silver, who graduated in 1981.

“Revoke the award and issue a statement of rebuke,” added James Brink, an English teacher at the school, where annual tuition runs over $50,000.

Some say Barr (inset) wasn’t a model citizen even when he was a teenage student at Horace Mann in the 1960s.

Classmate Jimmy Lohman called Barr a pugnacious bully who singled him out because he was Jewish and supported racial justice. Barr, on the other hand, boycotted a school carnival because proceeds went to the NAACP.

Barr had a “vicious fixation on my little Jewish ‘Commie’ ass,” Lohman wrote in a 1991 op-ed in a Florida newspaper.

The school’s alumni council last weekend met and agreed to “deliberately” consider the petition demands, it said in a statement. Head of school Tom Kelly did not respond to requests for comment. Barr did not respond.

Among other alumni honorees are disgraced ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Barry Scheck, the O.J. Simpson lawyer who founded the Innocence Project to defend the wrongly convicted.

Ironically last year’s award when to Lee Galernt, a crusading lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who has battled Barr over Trump’s policy of separating immigrant kids from their parents at the southern border.