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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2019, 11:01:42 AM »
7 hours was never real. It was a miscalculation of the number of credits needed per year vs. over a period of several years.

Agree.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2019, 11:05:33 AM »
12 hours a week was plenty for me. My yeshiva was in the upper 90s percentile in NYS.

I assume you are referring to the NYS Regents. What are the stats for Satmar boys?

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2019, 11:08:54 AM »
Here comes everyone showing off the chips on their shoulders....

Yup all the kids that were forced to carry in the kiddush levana cards and now years later hate the yeshivish world.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2019, 11:10:43 AM »
Yup all the kids that were forced to carry in the kiddush levana cards and now years later hate the yeshivish world.
ALOL! oh the memories
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2019, 11:15:00 AM »
Here comes everyone showing off the chips on their shoulders....

Here comes the ad hominem attacks.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2019, 11:19:04 AM »
False. They are not opposed per se, they are opposed the length of time that would be required daily/weekly.
+1! People are going to hate over here. But even Christian private schools are angry about these laws

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2019, 11:28:51 AM »
+1! People are going to hate over here. But even Christian private schools are angry about these laws
In public, there has no been a good faith effort to actually work on the length. Sure, if we're talking 4.5 vs. 3, that's fair. But the community isn't even publicly behind that.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2019, 11:31:41 AM »
Here comes the ad hominem attacks.
It was actually a very direct response to this.
Anything that will allow students to not be dependent upon the community.
and not in the slightest bit ad hominem
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2019, 11:33:02 AM »
In public, there has no been a good faith effort to actually work on the length. Sure, if we're talking 4.5 vs. 3, that's fair. But the community isn't even publicly behind that.
Why would they. That would make the breakup from 4/3 to 2.5/4.5 which is a significant difference.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2019, 11:34:03 AM »
In public, there has no been a good faith effort to actually work on the length. Sure, if we're talking 4.5 vs. 3, that's fair. But the community isn't even publicly behind that.
Because once they are "in" they can start imposing exactly what can be taught etc.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2019, 11:35:27 AM »
I am all for improving the quality of Secular education, but think that some of these standards are a bit of overreach.

I and all of my siblings went to  Litvish Yeshivas/Bais Yaakovs (I, the black sheep, went to a Chabad HS, with a similar structure). For most of my schooling our Limudei chol was setup as follows:

- 2.5-3 hours a day
- Including Math, Science, History, English
- Nearly all of our teachers from 5th grade onward were state licensed, and had masters degrees. All of them taught the same subjects at public or other private schools in the morning.
- In HS, almost all of my Secular studies teachers had Masters or PhDs. About half of them also taught in local colleges.
- We all met or exceeded local and state standards.

By contrast, my kids are in more modern schools. The only key differences:
- There's a more balanced split between Chol and Kodesh (about 3.5 hours a day each in elementary school, vs about 4 hours each in HS).
- Based on the Judaic curriculum, my kids are about 1-2 years behind were their counterparts in more yeshivish schools would be (i.e. they start learning gemara in 6th grade as opposed to late 4th early 5th).
- While most of my Yeshivish friends college aspirations were CUNY or Touro at night, my kids' and their friends' aspirations are Ivies and State schools after their gap year.

So in order to meet this standard of 4.5 hours per day - even the most modern day schools would need to give up 1 hour of limudei kodesh in order to comply*.

I think a lot of the real complaints should be focused on Yeshivas that stop teaching limudei chol in 5th  or 6th grade altogether.  When I meet people who went to Yeshivas that taught nothing - I am a bit appalled. At the same time, there is a wide gap between nothing and 4.5 hours a day.

I wish the state would focus its efforts on quality rather than quantity. i.e. administering tests to ensure students met state standards.

*It's also possible, that modern yeshivas can use the amount of time focused on teaching hebrew as a language as part of this requirement which would help them over the hump



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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2019, 11:35:43 AM »
Because once they are "in" they can start imposing exactly what can be taught etc.
+1 . In laymans terms mind your own business
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #32 on: July 12, 2019, 11:38:53 AM »
I assume you are referring to the NYS Regents. What are the stats for Satmar boys?
What are the stats for financial success within Satmar?
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #33 on: July 12, 2019, 11:39:56 AM »
It have to do with my education, but I wasn't sure what day of the week it was today, well, thanks for clearing that up.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #34 on: July 12, 2019, 11:40:28 AM »


I assume you are referring to the NYS Regents. What are the stats for Satmar boys?
LSATs, Regents... any standardized tests.

But very good. Make something mandatory. Don't shove a whole pie down our throats. Cleary 3 hours is enough. Dont make us do more. Maybe make the mandatory 2 hours and see how it goes. Chances are if they actually teach it those kids will be in at least the 80th percentile.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #35 on: July 12, 2019, 11:40:56 AM »
I am all for improving the quality of Secular education, but think that some of these standards are a bit of overreach.

I and all of my siblings went to  Litvish Yeshivas/Bais Yaakovs (I, the black sheep, went to a Chabad HS, with a similar structure). For most of my schooling our Limudei chol was setup as follows:

- 2.5-3 hours a day
- Including Math, Science, History, English
- Nearly all of our teachers from 5th grade onward were state licensed, and had masters degrees. All of them taught the same subjects at public or other private schools in the morning.
- In HS, almost all of my Secular studies teachers had Masters or PhDs. About half of them also taught in local colleges.
- We all met or exceeded local and state standards.

By contrast, my kids are in more modern schools. The only key differences:
- There's a more balanced split between Chol and Kodesh (about 3.5 hours a day each in elementary school, vs about 4 hours each in HS).
- Based on the Judaic curriculum, my kids are about 1-2 years behind were their counterparts in more yeshivish schools would be (i.e. they start learning gemara in 6th grade as opposed to late 4th early 5th).
- While most of my Yeshivish friends college aspirations were CUNY or Touro at night, my kids' and their friends' aspirations are Ivies and State schools after their gap year.

So in order to meet this standard of 4.5 hours per day - even the most modern day schools would need to give up 1 hour of limudei kodesh in order to comply*.

I think a lot of the real complaints should be focused on Yeshivas that stop teaching limudei chol in 5th  or 6th grade altogether.  When I meet people who went to Yeshivas that taught nothing - I am a bit appalled. At the same time, there is a wide gap between nothing and 4.5 hours a day.

I wish the state would focus its efforts on quality rather than quantity. i.e. administering tests to ensure students met state standards.

*It's also possible, that modern yeshivas can use the amount of time focused on teaching hebrew as a language as part of this requirement which would help them over the hump
They can use Hebrew language. I went to a centrist Modox (all boys) high school and Hebrew was the language.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #36 on: July 12, 2019, 11:55:18 AM »
They can use Hebrew language. I went to a centrist Modox (all boys) high school and Hebrew was the language.

Yes but my point is that even that is a stretch. Most of the MoDox Elementary schools run from 9-4 or so. If you take away time for lunch and recess, and count Hebrew as a foreign language, you still might not get to 4.5 hours of Secular.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #37 on: July 12, 2019, 11:58:18 AM »
Because once they are "in" they can start imposing exactly what can be taught etc.
People are fine with them being "in" to get taxpayer money.

Quite simply, I think there should be a minimum standard for state money, and if is not met, that yeshiva should get $0.

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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #38 on: July 12, 2019, 12:00:35 PM »
People are fine with them being "in" to get taxpayer money.

Quite simply, I think there should be a minimum standard for state money, and if is not met, that yeshiva should get $0.
That is not unreasonable, but there can also be a middle ground.
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Re: AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE NY YESHIVA COMMUNITY
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2019, 12:06:22 PM »
There are public schools that don't meet the minimum standard.
Do we close them down?  There's controversy over charter schools and they prove that they meet the standard.
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