R"n Toby Katz quoted my post, where I wrote:
> But the OP, as posted, seems to include  a hava mina that RYBS's
> psak might go so far as to suggest that I'd consider sacrificing
> my child's -- or someone else's child's -- chinuch in order to
> avoid supporting a non-Orthodox day school. And I, for one, am
> not willing  to consider that option.

All I meant to say here is that one should not, b'shita, 
automatically exclude non-Orthodox day schools from consideration, 
merely on the sole grounds that they are non-Orthodox. Rather, one 
should consider that fact among the many other factors that I wrote 
about in my post. It is possible that the public school might be an 
even less desirable option than the non-Orthodox day school.

RTK wrote:
> Do not think, "The non-O school provides a good chinuch but we
> don't want to show support for non-O." Rather, as bad as the
> chinuch might be in public school, the  education in a non-O
> day school is /even worse/.

It is very unfair to make such blanket statements. Both schools 
deserve a cursory lookover, at the very least.

> In public school he won't learn anything about Judaism at all
> and will be left a tabula rasa, for his parents or outside
> tutors to fill in later.

Surely the word "later" was included by mistake, as dedicated parents 
will try to teach their children as much Torah as they can.

> In the non-O school he will learn all kinds of sheker, which will
> be exceedingly difficult to eradicate from his mind later on.
> Much harder to write on a palimpsest than on a  tabula rasa.

I totally agree with this. But it is only one factor of many.

> In the "community" day school in Chattanooga where I taught...

Yes, sigh... You've written about those experiences many times, and I 
don't deny a bit of it. But it is unfair to think that all schools 
are like that one. I grant you that most might be similar, but Who 
knows if *this* one might be among the not-so-terrible ones. Or at 
least, not as terrible as the local public school.

Just so that I am perfectly clear: I am NOT presuming that a non-
Orthodox day school is better than a public school. I am simply 
saying that it should not be discounted sight unseen, because the 
public school might be even worse.

Akiva Miller