Reply To: Brainwashing as Part of Chinuch

At least the one I went to did. I have sit in on classes at public high schools for various summer school electives, and those classes were very anti-religion. I took an intro to health care careers class, and the teachers would tell us about how the common Jewish belief that it is wrong to donate organs such as your heart, is not true. And they tried to get me to sign up on the organ donor registry for my state. I didn’t fall into that trap, but still, I understood that they were wrong, and I corrected the teacher, and she apologized for giving the wrong information because as a person who was not Jewish, she would have had no clue.

In a Bais Yaakov, I was assigned to do a report on a gadol, and I wanted to seek clarification from my teacher about something I read in the book about the gadol, and she went ballistic and said that I was so chutzpadik (and I asked her politely!) and how dare I question a gadol, and she went on and on, and then when I tool the final exam (which I had to make up because I was sick on the actual day), she gave me an hour lecture, so I only had fifteen minutes to complete the exam, and then I failed the exam, I am lucky I graduated because of that exam.