Paying for high school

[yochiek93]

There are many people (called askanim) who work day and night to make sure all kids get into schools. If a school is turning your son away when it its impossible to pay much, you probably dont want to send your kid there anyways, because it means they have the wrong way of understanding what we are all about.

True true a yeshiva is not a business (contrary to what some people think)

[coralsnake]

Many yeshivas ask "how much can you pay" before making an acceptance decision

[David Smith]

No time for an article, but orthodox Judaism isn't just a belief system, it's an all immersive 24/7 way of life that a school not built around  won't be able to properly accommodate. Sending to public school isn't a non option only because of the kids future, but also because of the child's present.

[yochiek93]

Many yeshivas ask "how much can you pay" before making an acceptance decision

Wow which yeshivas I would never want to send a kid there

No time for an article, but orthodox Judaism isn't just a belief system, it's an all immersive 24/7 way of life that a school not built around  won't be able to properly accommodate. Sending to public school isn't a non option only because of the kids future, but also because of the child's present.

+1

[ChaimMoskowitz]

No time for an article, but orthodox Judaism isn't just a belief system, it's an all immersive 24/7 way of life that a school not built around  won't be able to properly accommodate. Sending to public school isn't a non option only because of the kids future, but also because of the child's present.

Then shouldn't everything from birth until death be built around this way of life?

[grodnoking]

Then shouldn't everything from birth until death be built around this way of life?

Yes. What isn't?

[David Smith]

Then shouldn't everything from birth until death be built around this way of life?

Hence why Jews are looked at as so clannish. (I have no time for a long post, and you probably have no interest in reading one, but school is a pretty immersive experience that centers a lot around conformity, as apposed to a job.)

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Hence why Jews are looked at as so clannish.

FTFY 

[David Smith]

FTFY 

Huh? I missed that.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

(I have no time for a long post, and you probably have no interest in reading one, but school is a pretty immersive experience that centers a lot around conformity, as apposed to a job.)

I am not disagreeing.

[Satmar Lady]

No time for an article, but orthodox Judaism isn't just a belief system, it's an all immersive 24/7 way of life that a school not built around  won't be able to properly accommodate. Sending to public school isn't a non option only because of the kids future, but also because of the child's present.

Add to that the fact that we want our kids to be educated on what it takes to act like a proper Jew 24/7. Since the laws are many and tend to get complicated, we rely somewhat on the school curriculum to teach and test the students on them.