“akuperma and NCB, did you not see rebbe yid’s post above???”
The only one I see is this one:
“I think he meant sign them up as a threat to bankrupt the public school system. But I’m not sure that would work for the most recent problem, because most of the local school budget is from property taxes (at least outside of NYC), so it would be a nice rough-up to the local school system, but not to the state govt that’s causing this trouble.”
Did they take down another one, or did you actually manage to read that in such a way that you thought he was agreeing with you? We know you meant your idea as a threat to bankrupt the public school system, but it’s not a private institution. What do you not get about this?
There have been laws for probably centuries requiring kids to be enrolled in school until a certain age. Obviously, there are various state requirements on what it means to be a proper school. None of this is new, except for the most recent attempt to ramp up the required hours. You guys are acting like it was legal to never educate your kids before this, and that it would be unconstitutional to require education. I’m sorry but this is as Constitutional as every other law regarding educational standards; it’s not different legally just because we find it harder to keep.
There are 2 things the seculars want us to do right now: change over to public school, fight back with immature arguments to the tune of “we don need no edjukation!” This thread is guilty of advocating both. Stick to the methods of the rabbis are using. There’s a reason they aren’t employing your strategies.