770chabad- back to the Yiddish in Chabad school issues. I’m asking out of curiosity, not to put down. I still don’t see how this works- I can see how it works in other chasidus, where they are insular and Yiddish speaking at home. But I never suspected that Chabad, with the large influx of BTs, was the same way- so you are saying that kids from BT homes, who never spoke Yiddish in their lives, whose parents don’t speak Yiddish, will switch out of public school, say at age 9, and go to a Yiddish speaking school, and the sefarim you described is enough to get them through? Or maybe these kids stay in the local Chabad day schools? But then you are creating a sub-community within the community, the BTs will never integrate.
The other issue that you did not answer, is how a boy who only learned to speak, read, and write English at home in his after-cheder time, can grow up to be an eloquent Shaliach who can communicate articulately with the people in his very out of town communities where the locals do not speak Yiddish. I imagine that shlichus goes beyond putting tefillin on someone and teaching them how to say shema and serving lots of meals on yomim tovim- they must talk and express themselves, teach deep concepts etc. How do they manage?
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