Posted on Sep 30, 2022
Mother of 10 says her kids didn't learn basic reading, math, science at Hasidic schools
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Earlier this month, New York Times reporter Eliza Shapiro told Here & Now about an investigation into New York's Hasidic yeshivas, or schools, that offer so little non-religious education that students get to high school without basic reading and math skills.
These schools are not required to give standardized tests but some do. In 2019, the Central United Talmudical Academy tested 1,000 boys in reading and math. All of them failed. While many Jewish schools have been recognized for excellence, these ultra-orthodox Hasidic schools, which serve about 50,000 students across Brooklyn and the lower Hudson Valley, offer a very different education.
These schools are not required to give standardized tests but some do. In 2019, the Central United Talmudical Academy tested 1,000 boys in reading and math. All of them failed. While many Jewish schools have been recognized for excellence, these ultra-orthodox Hasidic schools, which serve about 50,000 students across Brooklyn and the lower Hudson Valley, offer a very different education.
Mother of 10 says her kids didn't learn basic reading, math, science at Hasidic schools
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I don't know much about these schools beyond the negative press they have received lately. I would like to point out that students from public schools in New York (and elsewhere for that matter) can also end up in high school without basic reading and math skills
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From article: “[Yeshivas] have a right to teach their religious subjects, but I don't think that that gives them a right not to teach the academic subjects. Children should be able to graduate schools being able to know how to read and write,” she says. ”There is nothing in Judaism that would dictate that a child should not be able to do that.”
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