The battle to make sure all ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic yeshivas provide a minimally adequate education — as required by state law — is a fight that matters for people of all faiths, writes errollouis
Students stand outside a private school in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Photo: Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s surely not in the top ten concerns of most New Yorkers, but the long-running battle to make sure all ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic yeshivas provide a minimally adequate education — as required by state law — is a fight that matters for people of all faiths.
“It’s so hard to even explain to average New Yorkers what it means to grow up with practically no education,” Moster told me . “In elementary and middle school we got a maximum of 90 minutes of secular education a day, focused on basic English and arithmetic — and even that was at the end of the school day, like an after-school program, taught by unqualified teachers. And then once we entered high school, we got no secular education at all.
Until lately, the response by city and state authorities to these complaints of educational neglect has been a public embarrassment. Ex-mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to investigate, but a probe that began in 2015 — one that de Blasio’s schools chancellor, Carmen Farina, first estimated would take a couple of months — dragged on, inconclusively, for years.
Silverman explicitly ordered an end to the runaround being given to Beatrice Weber, the mother of a middle-schooler attending Yeshiva Mesiva Arugath Habosem where, she says, he’s getting a rushed and inadequate end-of-day cramming of “secular” subjects. Although Weber wanted her son in a different school, her ex-husband insisted that he attend YMAH as part of the terms of their divorce.
“This court finds it unreasonable to still not have a determination on the merits, let alone a completed investigation regarding allegations made in September of 2019 when it is now June of 2022 … there should be no reason why a determination cannot be reached within the next four months,” the ruling says.
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