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<DIV>> Do not think, "The non-O school provides a good chinuch but we<BR>>
don't want to show support for non-O." Rather, as bad as the<BR>> chinuch
might be in public school, the education in a non-O<BR>> day school is
/even worse/. [--old TK]<BR><BR>>>It is very unfair to make such blanket
statements. Both schools <BR>deserve a cursory lookover, at the very
least.<<</DIV>
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<DIV>Suppose the choice were sending the kid to a very religious Christian
school vs public school, and suppose the secular education and the moral
atmosphere in the Christian school were better than what the public school could
provide -- but the kid has to attend chapel every day and see a cross on the
wall in each classroom. Would you consider sending your kid to this
Christian school? It's "better" than public school, plus the kid will
learn some Bible!<BR><BR>> In public school he won't learn anything about
Judaism at all<BR>> and will be left a tabula rasa, for his parents or
outside<BR>> tutors to fill in later. [--old TK]<BR><BR>>>Surely the
word "later" was included by mistake, as dedicated parents <BR>will try to teach
their children as much Torah as they can.<<</DIV>
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<DIV>By "later" I meant when the kid gets home from school.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for dedicated parents, they would not live in a place with no day school
for their children, so the parents in this scenario must be not yet observant or
just becoming observant -- and probably therefore not knowledgeable enough to
give their kids a Jewish education themselves.<BR><BR>> In the non-O school
he will learn all kinds of sheker, which will<BR>> be exceedingly difficult
to eradicate from his mind later on.<BR>> Much harder to write on a
palimpsest than on a tabula rasa. [--old TK]<BR><BR>>>I totally
agree with this. But it is only one factor of many.<<</DIV>
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<DIV>What other factors would be so important that it would be worth exposing
your child to sheker that would fill his mind with an utterly false idea of what
the Torah is? The only possible factor I can think of is if the non-O
school has Orthodox teachers. <BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby
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