Day 107

One of many dual-language schools in the city, Khalil Gibran's focus on Arabic language and culture made it a lightning rod for criticism by legions of paranoid Islamophobes, who feared it had a secret, insidious Islamist agenda, when it opened in 2007 (Khalil Gibran, for whom the academy is named, was a Lebanese-American Christian). The school has been plagued with many problems in the intervening years, and it's currently being transitioned from a middle school to a high school.