Grandmaster, enough of the high handed superiority complex. I’ve taught and worked in and with public schools, Jewish day schools, yeshivos ktanos, and yeshivos and Jewish high schools. I’ve seen good and bad schools, and good and bad students in all of them. There are public schools with great academics, no violence, no drugs, and a culture of respect. There are yeshivos with drug, violence, bullying, and respect problems. Denying our faults is a useless and dangerous pursuit. Putting down non-Jews reflexively is a transgression of kovod habriyos. Do you have 20 years of experience dealing with both systems? Can you back up your broad assertions with experience? Have you encountered a child in a chareidi yeshiva who wet his pants with fear every time a teacher approached his desk because he was being physically and emotionally abused at home? I have. Have you encountered a child in a chareidi yeshiva who cried when he didn’t win a can of coke in an in-class contest because his family of 14 couldn’t afford even a bottle of soda and he didn’t know what it tasted like? I have. Have you had to ask the principal to suspend a bullying bochur, a rabbi’s son, a repeat and systemic little criminal who forced money and other things from other kids in the chareidi yeshiva he went to? I have.
Of course there are violent and unsafe public schools. But there are also ones which are models of manners, respect, tolerance, learning, and inclusiveness. I’ve taught Catholic high school kids about the Shoah and they showed more interest and value in the lessons to be learned than some of the frum kids I have encountered.
That said, I have encountered rebbeim, students, and families in yeshivos who set a gold standard of menschlichkeit.
Do you sleep better at night thinking only the goyim and the frei have problems? Wishing does not make it so.