NYC to probe 39 Brooklyn Yeshivas.
New York state law requires that private school students receive a substantially equivalent education in secular subjects. A group of parents signed a letter of complaint saying that the education their children are receiving is inadequate. Living in their insulated communities, they don't want to pull their children out of the schools -- they just want the schools to have to meet state standards.
The education the children, especially the boys, purportedly receive IS grossly inadequate. I'm glad these parents are speaking out and hope it helps all the children there, not just theirs.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york/city-promises-probe-39-brooklyn-yeshivas
Moster began advocating for better secular education in chasidic yeshivas when he discovered how unprepared for college his own yeshiva education had left him. When he left yeshiva he did not know how to do long division or write an essay. He’d never heard of a molecule, a cell, or the U.S. system of checks and balances, or even the American Revolution.
Moster said that even the 90 minutes of secular studies he did receive each day were of poor quality. Yeshiva administrators considered secular education as a waste of time, he noted, since Judaic studies were paramount, and students treated the classes as a time to goof off.
One Yaffed supporter, who requested that his name not be used for fear of backlash against his family, graduated from a prominent Borough Park yeshiva and now sends his children there. He said his sons had learned multiplication and had started on fractions when their secular education stopped.
“The teachers are very unqualified — people from the community with hardly any English knowledge,” he said in an interview earlier this year.
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