Dear Yserbius,
“communities that essentially tell children that if they can’t learn for ten hours a day”
A community that expects the kids to learn ten hour a day?!? Tell me where and I’ll be looking for a wife today. Lakewood is far removed from such a description.
Um, do you mean Yeshiva Beis Binyomin of Stamford?
Your assuming that it was an ideological choice. My guess is that is has to do with feasibility. Education can’t be willed upon the students. And (barring plentiful funds) it has to be worth the investment.