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They both probably did. Torah, if you drop down to the higher middle school level math course, you will most likely still be able to take honors math in high school. And on top of that, you get the privilage of still having a childhood for a bit longer.
My younger brother was initially taking high school algebra one in seventh grade, but he had to drop down to higher seventh grade algebra one because he was flunking, and until then, he was in gifted math classes his whole life (although he also has mild learning differences as well- much more mild than mine) and then he ended up taking honors geometry his freshman year.
i understand, but you only belong in those courses at that age if you can get an A or a B in them. Otherwise, why mess up your transcript before entering high school?
UMMMM… Excuse me?!?!? We are fighting many wars at this time.
1. Our Yetzer Hara
2. The media war.
3. For the right to circumcise our sons.
4. For people to stop drinking so much on Purim.
5. We had operation piller of defence, and Iran is threatening to seek revenge against Israel because of attacks that Israel might not have even done.
6. Unfortunately, there is a Civil war in Syria, and the U.S. is considering intervening, meaning that could turn into world war three. Other countries are considering intervening as well.
If not now, then when?
Mod 42- does that mean you would be willing to eat a cockroach?
it was the same thing at the high school i went to, but they were also rebbitzins, rebbitzins can do whatever career they want provided that it is acceptable within the framework of halacha. They could even be doctors.
What if I lived in memphis tennessee, and nobody else covered their legs, if I moved there, would i be able to wear flip flops and ankle length leggings?
So then why don’t bais yaakov girls just wear flip flops and ankle length leggings?
i had to miss part of play practice in order to be able to eat, then i got called back after ten minutes and i only got to eat a slice of bread (i had to go to the bathroom…), i have a heter to eat normally on minor fast days.
That is why i said the majority. At the bais yaakov I went to, many of the secular studies teachers were rebbitzins.
i got a whole lecture during class yesterday about it- I don’t plan on drinking more than a glass of wine if possible- but unlikely. However, the thing that really bothers me is that instead of my cousin going to new orleans for his 21st birthday, he came to israel and his parents packed beer in their suitcases.
I heard succos to pesach from a bunch of my friends. i know people who do that…
lol. I meant I ate WITH them.
shnitzy- I took an iq test in eighth grade and got 124. I nearly skipped kindergarten, but didnt end up doing that because I still had the kindergarten maturity level. I am not saying that to brag, because unfortunately, i am also a bit learning disabled, but if I was more organized in real life and had a better attention span, i could have done much better in school to the point where i would have been able to take APs in high school.
I would say it is completely assur.
Sbarro in Malcha!!! i hope everyone has an easy fast, i broke mine in the old city with my cousins.
I think it is actually a chumra. Obviously, I was required to cover my legs when i was at the bais yaakov i went to, so i started doing it outside of school as well. As long as the whole leg is covered, either by your skirt being long and wearing knee highs, or by leggings and socks, or tights, you are following the minhag.
The denier concept is Super chumra, and the people that wear black tights/ socks from succos to pesach are taking their chumras to a whole different level that i respect, but feel is completely unneccesary.
What makes TAG a BY?
That is like asking what makes Bais Yaakov of Boro Park, Bais Yaakov of LA, Bais Yaakov of Minneapolis, a bais yaakov.
The common denominators throughout the bais yaakov system are their rule books and their ideal end products. Uniform, no talking to boys, tznius, good middos, and being taught the majority of your school subjects by Rabbis and rebbitzins.
I never meant that having an iphone makes someone not bais yaakov, I had an android and I consider myself a bais yaakov girl. I know that you are allowed to wear color. I mostly do because even though I prefer black; 1. I am in a very modern seminary 2. Tznius clothes are very expensive and I already have clothes, but when I was starting to wear skirts, my mom would not really let me buy any black clothes, so I had to get colorful stuff (I am not saying that its assur to wear stuff from tj maxx and stuff like that, but the clothes that come there that I bought were the things that fall apart more easily because my mom thought I was going through a phase, so she didn’t want so spend so much money on clothes (plus I was having weight issues…). 3. $50 on skirts are expensive and gemachs don’t typically have the skirts that everyone likes to wear. 4. I have other expenses.
I feel like there isn’t one clear cut definition of what makes someone a bais yaakov girl.
In terms of rules about the internet, I don’t feel that I would have been able to give up the internet at that time.
if you want a parnossah in the future as an adult, you need to pass high school geometry.
On a more elementary level, Esther HaMalka and the rest of Bnei Yisrael fasted for three days before Esther approached Achashverosh and Haman about the feast… since we can’t handle three days of fasting (we are on a significantly lower madreiga than Bnei Yisrael was at at that time), we only fast for one day.
Children can’t drink that stuff 😛
I would ask your friends… perhaps they would know. I don’t have children, but I would think at the very least that the video would be a cute, non-invasive way to take a picture of your baby when he is sleeping and you could possibly use flash.
Thats amazing! I wish I could give to more people, but I have so many friends, and I might not even be able to see them all on Purim. Before I lost my treif phone at an inter-seminary choir competition, I had over 200 contacts in it- that would be a lot of people to give mishloach manos to!
And there are frum women who go to Curves wearing their work clothes, which are really nice, lift weights in those clothes, and swap their work shoes for tennis shoes. I hate to say it, but with the rise in prominence of technology, people feel so much more free to do what ever they want whether it is in their online persona, or in real life.
Perhaps that is an ice breaker for them to get to know you better to see if it is a good shidduch.
TAG is for sure a Bais Yaakov, but I know girls who went there that were not so BY, one girl I know went because they had really good teachers, but she has an iphone and stuff like that, she also did not cover her legs all the time.
I have a close friend who went there for a year and then switched to SKA because even though the school is her family’s hashkafa, it was not exactly hers and she needed to be in a warmer environment, Baruch Hashem, she loves SKA, but I still consider her a bais yaakov girl.
If it was not for their rules about the internet and wearing color, i could see myself having gone there as a student last year.
The pigtails.