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marishtar t1_jan0ihi wrote

Reply to comment by Double-Ad4986 in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl

You don't see how commenting on religious schooling is commenting on religion?

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Double-Ad4986 t1_janniqs wrote

i get it but i wasn't commenting on the religious aspect of the school. simply that they were violating a child's rights in this country by not teaching them basic reading and writing

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fuckyouimin t1_jaoss0c wrote

First of all, the claim that they are not being taught reading and writing honestly sounds politically manufactured to me. If all of your classes are called "Religious Brainwashing" and you read the bible all day every day and write essays about it, you might not have "Reading" and "Writing" classes, but you sure as hell are able to read and write. (And it doesn't sound like Hasids are graduating school unable to read and write, are they? Historically speaking, their communities tend to prioritize education and work mainly white collar jobs.)

So you took the absence of reading and writing classes and compared that to terrorists learning to blow people up. And now you wonder why people are looking at you side eye...? Hmm.

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Double-Ad4986 t1_jap625q wrote

omfg yall are SO obtuse. i wasnt comparing reading to terrorism i was saying leaving a culture to do as it pleases doesn't work out well. & it literally hasn't in these hasidic communities.

not to mention if you don't believe what the reports of these yeshivas are doing-you're just misinformed.

maybe if you believed in more critical thinking you'd be able to understand my original point.

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fuckyouimin t1_jap8r5c wrote

So tell me... are kids from yeshivas graduating being unable to read and write? I'm more interested in actual evidence, not "critical thinking".

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Double-Ad4986 t1_japci6j wrote

you better believe they are graduating that way. because they aren't being taught english—they're being taught hebrew only. maybe if you read a single article about it then you'd read that there's parents literally begging that their kids an education that teaches them english. many switch their kids to public school. the ones that don't get threatened by the community for wanting to.

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