He hadn't read the article at the point he wrote this.
Actually, he had (at least a late draft of it). The full article wasn’t out yet, and he was hoping to preempt some of the damage. Are you saying he’s required to play catch up on the chance he misses something, and that’s an inherent flaw in his response?
IOW, if he feels the article is biased, then he should respond in a biased fashion?
Who said he responded in a biased fashion? He described it in a negative fashion which IMHO was completely fair. You’re the one claiming his response was intrinsically biased.
Influence opinion of the Regents? After they've been studying this issue for two years? I don't see that there's much new for them here.
Influence public opinion, which certainly matters to the Regents, as it should.
Just not true.
I mean, it’s somewhat
subjective, but I think we both know violence is quite low in frum neighborhoods. C’mon man.
That's not the insinuation.
I’m just going to have to call you out here. Did you read it?
“Spread across Brooklyn and the lower Hudson Valley, the schools turn out thousands of students each year who are unprepared to navigate the outside world, helping to push poverty rates in Hasidic neighborhoods to some of the highest in New York.”
“For many, the consequences of attending Hasidic schools can ripple across time. Students grow up and can barely support their own families. Some leave the community and end up addicted to drugs or alcohol. Others remain and feel they have little choice but to send their children to the schools.”
I agree, it's not relevant to mention the Holocaust, but the author seemed to consider Chassidim arriving after the Holocaust as a reason for their wanting this sort of yeshiva.
It was absolutely relevant. He was trying to rebut a point you seem to have difficulty seeing which is that the article is trying to form a suggestion that they are largely mooching off the State to fund the education, ignoring that the great majority of the money comes from private tuition. It’s simply untrue, and the private schooling is actually a great financial burden on parents, not some kind of devious way to scam more money from the good Gentiles of New York.
The article doesn't give that impression at all. Maybe stealing from other taxpayers to fund religious education, but nowhere do I see mention of extravagant lifestyle.
“Even so, The Times found, the Hasidic boys’ schools have found ways of tapping into enormous sums of government money, collecting more than $1 billion in the past four years alone.” Sounds to me like a complaint that they are taking too much from the system. I said extravagant private school lifestyle, as in they claim to be funding this “luxury”.
LOL. It's bad enough that I spent time reading his response to an article he didn't read, I certainly don't intend wasting more time comparing his essay to the actual article. He can do that.
He did, you haven’t managed to show any discrepancies between his response and what he responded to.
The example given shows girls in a state of dress, not undress. In one, a girl is changing a flat tire, and the text has the word "girl" crossed out. They're not allowed to read the word?
Emphasis on the example. One example, from one school. This by implication makes it sound like a school could have no reason for possibly changing parts of a book at their discretion. I mentioned that this was a cherry picked exaggerated example chosen to make them look bad.
Hamayvin, yavin. "At some yeshivas, students who bring in their parents’ “I Voted” stickers win rewards. The Central United Talmudical Academy recently took children with stickers on a trip to Coney Island, two parents said. The other children had to stay behind. Mr. Connolly, the lawyer for some Hasidic schools, disputed the parents’ account."
No, it’s just another attempt to smear the community. Did you read the article? It is rife with unrelated implication of the frum community. How exactly do you justify their inclusion of the voter registration “issue”?
Some “unbiased” gems from this totally objective non-hit-piece:
“Segregated by gender,”
“Warned about the problems over the years, city and state officials have avoided taking action, bowing to the influence of Hasidic leaders who push their followers to vote as a bloc and have made safeguarding the schools their top political priority.” (Standard trope, given a free pass).
“group of schools that is keeping some 50,000 boys from learning a broad array of secular subjects” -They don’t stop you from learning outside of Yeshiva should you so desire. Perhaps one or two outlying schools do.
“Some have been hired off Craigslist or ads on lamp posts.” Yes, I’m sure this is the standard hiring process for English teachers.
“During religious study, teachers in many of the boys’ schools have regularly smacked, slapped and kicked their students, records and interviews show, creating an environment of fear that makes learning difficult. At some schools, boys have called 911 to report being beaten.” (This is all about education, and this totally happens in every school, right?)
