“They absolutely pick up! We are teaching kids that academics is hashkofa.”
there is no chance in the world that you don’t deliberately misread what I write.
I did not say: level of academics than the hashkofos
I said:
who seem to worry more about the level of academics than the hashkofos.
I will translate for you. These parent put more emphasis on the academics that their children learn, then they put on the hashkafos they learn. Sometimes pushing to forgo Torah learning for more secular learning. This poor prioritizing of secular OVER religious gives a very bad, sad, wrong message to the children.