Mother of 10 says her kids didn't learn basic reading, math, science at Hasidic schools

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

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.”

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Two years ago, Weber says she tried to file a complaint regarding a corporal punishment incident involving her son,, but the police wouldn’t write a report, she says.

“Recently, he has not been getting hit. And I think they know maybe that I speak up and that it would not be wise,” Weber says. “But he still sees it happening as recently as this year. He said there was a classmate taken to the front of the classroom [and] punched by the teacher. The principal was called in to hit him. I mean, there’s no words.”

Weber notes that outside of the Hasidic community, parents can choose whether to send their kids to public or private schools. After breaking out of this insular world, she says she’s learning she deserves the right to make the same choices as other mothers.

“People don’t really understand how the community operates,” she says. “And I think people don’t realize the sense of helplessness that you have in the community and the few choices that you have.”

In 2019, Weber filed a complaint with her son’s school and with New York City about the lack of adequate secular education in these Hasidic schools. It went to New York State Court in 2021 and it’s now in the hands of New York’s Supreme Court. Weber is waiting for a ruling."