I don’t know why they are silent.
I do have a guess though. The solution to the problem is quite obvious .
As has been highlighted in several publications, our test scores are higher than public school’s. However as we all know this is only a partial truth. There are many yeshivos that fail (or would fail if they offered said tests) with flying colors. It is largely because of those institutions that we are in this mess at all.
It is hard to argue, that the goverment has a right to mandate nitty gritty education details when we are doing as well as the public school system
However it is also hard to argue that all yeshivos fall into that category. and it is hard to argue that the State has no vested interest in insuring that all chidren (especialy if govt funds are involved) recieve some basioc education.
So were does that leave us?
Should we pressure all yeshivos to offer greater secular education?
Should we keep waving the high scoring ones in the air and hope the state doesn’t notice our bait and switch?
Or should we bury our heads in the sand and pretend that the above isn’t true?
The latter is the easiest