hey i didnt manage to read the whole thread but ive read most and im really upset with what everyone is saying… i as a beis yaakov girl find is so important to learn torah and really delve into it…. the reason that we need that now in the 21st cent and not b4 is bc we have yeridat hadorot, if girls dont learn more, the jewish feeling will b left out at home…. from where i come from i know many ppl who didnt go through the ‘modern’ bj system and their house is devoide of the ‘torah air’. there is so much tuma in the world now that we have to give the equivilant amount of kedusha…. yes its imoportant that we learn things thatll b usefull at home and i agree that this is a great prob in the us, and something should b done about it, but if the mother doesnt have torah how could the children fulfill ‘al tishkach torat imecha’
now-days there is very little siadadishmaya of the mother, and a woman has to work for it…
yes i did learn home ec. at my school but that could b learnt from home, thats really the mothers job, and everyone who complains that the school doesnt teach their daughters to cook, should involve them in the kitchen themselves.
sara shneira’s vision was so that the girls would b able to have a torah’s education, not HOW TO B A GOOD COOK!