The boy, who was stabbed more than two dozen times, and his mother were both wounded by their landlord on Saturday outside Chicago in an attack fueled by the war in the Middle East, officials said.
Swimming is required to graduate with full honors from the elite Manhattan public school. Some Muslim girls worried the shift to co-ed classes would pit their academic goals against their religion.
After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece.