According to a summary of the article emailed by the Times reporters to the yeshivas and obtained by Hamodia, the article will allege that “students in these schools are deprived of [secular] education unlike students anywhere else in New York,” that students are these yeshivas perform poorly on standardized tests, the schools receive “enormous sums of public money,” and that “many religion teachers use severe corporal punishment.”
So here's the real question: how much does a standard public school education matter for the average kid? Not for the kid who's aiming for medicine, engineer or accounting? For the kid who's likely going to have a simple trade and a simple life? How much does history, chemistry and math matter to that kid? Bottom it: they don't. No one will stop him on the street and demand he find a lowest common denominator or ask him what year the War of 1812 happened. The point of the public school education is to create a well-rounded citizen and not much more.
ReplyDeleteSo the Chareidim are more blunt. They don't care about creating well-rounded citizens because that's goyish and not necessary to lead what they think is a Torah-true life. Their kids don't dream of being doctors, engineers or accountants. It would be bad for their shidduch chances. So by skipping all the stuff that they won't need to live their cloistered lives, are they really making their kids miss out?
In short: 10 years after graduation, who's make more and who's happier?