Crown Heights Info At a recent Chaddishe auspicious day, celebrated with a children’s
rally at 770 with several schools participating, there was a teacher
from one of the schools that delivered a captivating story to the
assembled children. It was a tale from the days of the Baal Shem Tov.
The teacher described this poor Jew thrown into prison by the poretz
for lacking the funds to cover rent. He relayed to the spellbound
children; “The yid was in such great despair and so sad, he felt that
nobody can help him, so he screamed to Hashem from the depths of his
heart, “Yechi Adoneinu… leolam Voed!”
Today, dropping my three year old child off at school, I entered the
classroom with my kid, and the children were in the midst of davening.
Yechi was a very central part as it was sung with great vigor. I was
astounded. He isn’t enrolled in a fringe school, rather one of the
mainstream ones that has been around for decades.[...]
Is it the role of a school that serve a diverse parent body, to be an
indoctrination ground for children from the moment they begin to
develop?
This article/link it's a real treat.
ReplyDeleteAs a very non-chabatzker that always sees all of them making a fool of themselves, it's nice to see that it's still an issue.
I thought, as in all communities, the extremest won and if want to exist you must conform.
Maybe there is still hope, doubt it.
Unfortunately, the organization of Chabad which started the Mashichistic nonsense has always pushed it at the kids, and hard. They understand that even if the parents are not Mashichistim, it's not too hard to indoctrinate the children.
ReplyDeleteIf you send your children to Chabad institutions - they will get indoctrinated. I have many friends who have realized this, too late.
> Is it the role of a school that serve a diverse parent body, to be an indoctrination ground for children from the moment they begin to develop?
ReplyDeleteShort answer: yes. There is no shortage of institutions that believe that the last people who should teach children beliefs and values are their parents. The Chabad school system is just another one of those institutions.