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So I went to seminar a few years ago. I loved it and I’m the person who is always homesick. There are no more night classes so you are for sure done by 630 but it depends on which electives you choose to take….. The girls there are a big mix there is no way to describe it…. It is more out of town but that is also dependent on the year you go, bc it can change year to year. The girls who do go there are girls not who be necessarily do well, but girls who put there best foot forward and try. With curfew they are pretty good, if you know you are going to be late you can get excused for it in advance and they are very good about that. When you come late and not excused and you have no excuse, you will have to sit detention, which is not bad. On a designated night you and all the other months late girls sit In the library and can do anything you want you just have to be there for an hour. Personally I didn’t mind it because it made me sit down and do my work. Thy are not atrocity one way they are verrrryyyyy open minded!!!!!It really is a caring place.
Some other things that yekke’s do is by the chuppah they are not facing the people and have a tallis on top of them. Some wash before kiddiush, wait 3 hrs, boy at 3 years old brings a wimpel a clothe that gets wrapped around the sefer torah and is designed with the childs name and things.
Most old time yekke’s who live in a yekkish area are generally proud of their roots.
Yekkes are spread out all over but most people just dont know who in their area is yekkish, theirs switzerland, washington heights, and other areas that have a great yekkish population.
So i will be honest and don’t take it personally. I think you shouldn’t have acted so quickly. I was in seminary recently and i was one of those girls who hated it and everyone knew wanted to go home. I was on the younger half of my family and always went to camp and loved it. Before i even left i hated it. I went and cried so hard to my mother i feel bad to this day of what i put her through. I arrived the first day and told my mother i was gonna fly home the next day without any permission. Well she was not happy about that one. I envied the girls who went home early bc they didnt like it. I cryed to everyone i knew and never gave myself a chance to even like it. Well when i settled in a after succos i starting loving it put it this way by the end i cried when o had to leave. Its a experience there is nothing like. And i agree with others you are giving her reason to quite and not to go through some challenges, its okay to wanna come home but it passes. You are instituting values by making a child stick there way through something, a commitment!!