Keep telling yourselves that this is legal, that wont change the fact that it isnt. Shmueli Lowensteins experience is much more common. The 25-year-old is a former student at Oholei Torah, the most prominent yeshiva in Crown Heights, where, he said, “I did not grow up learning English or any kind of secular studies at all,” and subjects like phonics and math were “nonexistent. “Everything was done in Yiddish until seventh or eighth grade, and then they would switch to Hebrew, Lowenstein said. I don’t think I ever received a paper with English writing on it, except for maybe a permission slip for a school trip.” Under New York state and federal regulations, stories like Lowenstein’s shouldn’t be possible — all New York schools, public and private, are required to offer equivalency of instruction in basic general subjects such as American history and math. dnainfo/new-york/20130122/crown-heights/english-is-absent-math-doesnt-count-at-brooklyns-biggest-yeshivas
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:37:24 +0000
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