Reply To: Monsey Girls High Schools

I made this thread almost three years ago on behalf of one of my sisters who was looking into high schools. By now, my next sister after that is already attending one of the three schools mentioned… just funny how things come around :).

Letakein Girl: I’d disagree that the students and the hanhalah of the school are modern (or, really, to be more accurate and use your phrase, MO). The principal started it as a Bais Yaakov, and with the exception of not espousing things like kollel, I believe that’s the way it’s basically stayed as far as the teaching and educational hashkafa. Regardless of its name, I would still not call it a Bais Yaakov in any way- but the school itself doesn’t have a specifically modern hashkafa (Zionism, etc). It’s just not really one thing or another and the way the school is in general (very chilled, etc) just attracts girls who are less Bais Yaakov in hashkafa. It is easily the most modern (on the very limited scale of Monsey girls high schools…) of the girls high schools in the area, as the only school with no uniform but rather a dress code, but it is not hashkafically modern in the way an actual MO school would be. Yes, there will be more of what you say, but that’s not davka the school. It’s the girls (of whom some are my friends, incidentally).

To be fair, though, sometimes schools do follow in the path of the girls, and perhaps Ateres does that sometimes. But it’s still not accurate to say that the school is hashkafically MO.