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your last paragraph is ridiculous. i also would like these children to be EDUCATED in a Jewish environment.
I have been arguing with you about your unclear comments about rights; and about language being grounds for tuitioning out; about legal comments that i don’t think are accurate; about whether or not a child can learn anything in a public school that doesn’t teach in yiddish; and about the fact that you seem to change the scenarios without realizing it. I would never say that a Jew should be in a public school if there is a needles eye window for getting them into a frum environment. I myself had a child at home for a whole year to keep him out of the public school system.
I have also seen, by the way, a group of frum kids (less disabled) fight to be placed in a frum program that did not have the means, understanding or education to support their special needs and many of them did not grow, get educated or maximize thier abilities. They suffered from a lack of therapeutic interventions and suffered from being mishandled by teachers who could not understand them fully. For SOME of those children, I would fully recommended public school. it would be temporary and the only way for them to eventually have a chance in a resource yeshiva program.
You need to be in it for the kids. But honestly, i don’t think you and i had even gotten to that conversation because so much of the presentation did not match anything i know from my experiences and i think all of our up and back was about the process one goes thru to achieve that.