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On the other hand, in public high schools, they often not only encourage class discussions, but they might have an english class get into a circle, and each student is given three note cards, and its a graded discussion where each time the student says something, they have to write their name, and what they said on one of their note cards and toss it into the floor, and if they did not use up all three of their cards to say intelligent things, based on what the teacher remembers/ read from the card, then they get a bad grade for the class discussion, so in order to make the discussion last the whole period, people have to argue to a degree about what is being discussed (for example, if the class was to discuss if regents should still be required as a standardized test for all new yorkers when no other state has that type of intense graduation requirement, some people might say that it is still a good thing to do, and other people might counter and say “Why should my parents have to invest thousands of dollars every year in order for me to take prep classes so I can answer a 50 question test about a subject that I took and the test has random questions on it, just so I can graduate high school with the “right diploma” when no other states require this?”
Are people saying that this would not be tolerated in a Jewish school about a Jewish topic?