Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

From what I understand from my aussie friends which is why the situation may not be ideal (if you look at it that way) is due to two components- the majority of the community isn’t very chassidish- in fact many of then were not originally lubavitcher families necessarily, AND that many non frum people send to the school.

So this means the kids have a very high level of exposure as all the things typical non frum kids or teens do, about 50% of their classmates are doing and it creates peer pressure for the can go either way kind of kids.

The flip side is that there are many kids who graduate from not frum homes and they themselves are frum because of the chinuch they got.

Now I know some shluchims kids from there who are extremely chassidish because their homes were, so they did not get negatively influenced by their classmates and are very much lamplighters for others.

However kids coming from not such strong homes, where they have TV and watch movies etc are very much at risk in such an environment. But I haven’t been there personally and don’t know much else such as percentages of any of the above. I also didn’t know about the new school, but would assume it’s for only frum kids so they don’t lose out.