UJM,
I don’t know what your talking about. The school never asked if you had a TV. Half the kids did, half the kids didn’t. Half went to movies half didnt. Half wore velvet yarmulkes, half wore Knit. Some went to Pirchei, some went to Bnei Akiva. Some went to Frum camps in the mountains, some went to coed Zionist camps. Some vacationed where there were Frum Yidden and Minyanim, some went to the beach . Some mothers came dressed like Boro Park, some mothers wore pants and no hair covering. We had kids whose father’s were Rebbeim in Yeshivas, we had fathers who were YU anti-Yeshiva types. We all got along and as a general rule the kids came out how they went in. Because Hashkafa comes from the home not the school. The school taught Torah, not Hashkafa. Today, the Chasidish wears a Streimel, the very Yeshivish are Rebbeim, and the Modern Orthodox are…you guessed it, Modern Orthodox. That kids can’t be exposed to kids from different backgrounds is a myth.
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