Comments on: Girls Not Accepted Into Schools: Moses Warns Seminary Heads Of Likely Sanctions http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/101787/girls-not-accepted-into-schools-moses-warns-seminary-heads-of-likely-sanctions.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: bestbubby http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/101787/girls-not-accepted-into-schools-moses-warns-seminary-heads-of-likely-sanctions.html#comment-229507 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:19:01 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=101787#comment-229507 Fearless Lion, thanx for the clarification. As for the girl I’m talking about, trust me, the schools she applied to aren’t exactly Harvard. Her parents aren’t worried about resume/Shidduchim, they’re worried about frumkeit and nice friends.

I had the exact same problem trying to get one of MY students into a community school where Hashkafas were exactly what she & her parents were looking for. But not being an academic girl, her midos weren’t a factor & this girl was (still is AFAIK) a star. In the end, I told the principal that I wouldn’t send MY daughter to her school & I’d make very sure parents knew the attitudes this school has (I am NOT on her Simcha list!!) My student ended up going to school overseas.

Is this what we have to do…send girls to school in another country because the elitist schools here only want “the best”? Define “the best.” Somebody? ANYBODY?

]]> By: Fearless Lion http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/101787/girls-not-accepted-into-schools-moses-warns-seminary-heads-of-likely-sanctions.html#comment-229505 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:03:08 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=101787#comment-229505 To #1 bestbubby;
In Israel, High Schools are called Seminaries, so they are referring to High School. If you would fully read the article, it is obvious that it’s referring to 9th grade.
As for your friend, if she is not up to it academicaly, it would be a disaster for her to attend those schools. She obviously has to apply to a school with lower academic studies. I understand that it won’t look good on her resume, but it’s the truth. It’s her problem, not the school’s!
As for the 40 girls in Israel, 40 girls is less than one percent, and I very well understand that there are one percent of kids, that no school would want, due to academic or behaviour failure. I understand that there has to be a solution, but don’t blame the schools, nor risk the other 99 percent.

]]> By: bestbubby http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/101787/girls-not-accepted-into-schools-moses-warns-seminary-heads-of-likely-sanctions.html#comment-229500 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:31:23 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=101787#comment-229500 This is about SEMINARY? How about worrying about HIGH SCHOOL? There are girls in Brooklyn who aren’t registered for HS – I personally know of one, a lovely frum girl with excellent midos and an engaging personality, who isn’t academic enough for every school she applied to. Something is very wrong with this picture.

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