Chesedname,
maybe that’s another solution have the state build a public school, where we’ll send our kids, have them pay the full cost, and we will rent the building for a few hours a day for anything we want, which will happen to be religious studies.
Three questions about this proposed scenario — provided it’s even legal:
1. Many parents send their kids to yeshiva not just to receive a Torah education but also to not have their kids subjected to outside influences. Sending them to a public school such as you proposed undermines that since you can’t have a public school for Orthodox Jews only. How are you going to address the concerns of parents to send their kids there?
2. What are you going to do when a Jewish kid decides he doesn’t want to go to the after-school Jewish education. By law he can’t be forced to go.
3. What are you going to do when a non-Jewish kid wants to join in? If it’s on public school grounds, I’m almost positive that you’d have to accept him.
The Wolf