Syag Lchochma
I think you are right we are talking about two different things.
In Kiryat Joel School district all the students who are are taught in the public school are taught in Yiddish and the ratio of is one teacher per six students with three paraprofessionals. Both the teachers and the paraprofessional are special ed certified. And by the way it cost them around $75,000.00 per child. This is the type of special education that I am talking about. In Monsey they have a public school program solely for Jews because of kosherous and the need to teach in Yiddish taught and staffed by Jewish Special Ed certified teachers. And they do not teach Jewish studies. According to the the principals of the school it is working fine but some of the non- Jewish parents in the school want them to be integrated with the rest of the school. If they try to integrate the program all the parent will appeal. If they appeal the program must by law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act the school must leave the program as is, until a mediation or hearing is made as is their right under the law. They can appeal to either have the program left the way it was or they can request to be transferred to Kiryat Joel’s Public School which will cost almost double not taking in to consideration transportation cost.
I know many yeshiva are not geared for student that have attention disorders. There are drugs that can regulate it so that they can be an A student. The school you are probably referring had a teacher student ratio of at least one teacher per 15 or more students with maybe one or two paraprofessionals. From the way you are talking about it, the teachers and paraprofessionals probably weren’t special ed certified. The idea of Special Ed Yeshivas is great and people would be fighting to get in but the only way to afford it is by having the state pay. It just to expensive to pay via tuition and fundraising.
I have a friend who is Hispanic and as a boy came from Ecuador. The first year he was in the US he was in bilingual(Spanish) education.He convinced his mother to get him out and he learnt English, most of the kids in his bilingual class remained in the program until graduation and never learnt proper English. The same thing will happen here once a kid is in special ed in public school, he or she will remain there until they graduate and their soul will be lost forever.