Pashuta Yid wrote a very powerful thing: “We must stop talking about the terrible aveirah of loshon hora, and then proceed to viciously attack every other group “lshem shomayim”. Don’t you think kids see through this total hypocracy and sheker?” My kid was very turned off by some principals and teachers because she felt they were hypocrats. Many teens are almost allergic to this kind of thing. As far as the dress code thing, I don’t think it is that simple. Proof being that even kids from cool families go off the derech, and they were allowed to wear more with it stuff. But when the child has a bad experience with the school and the teachers, they don’t want to be a part of the frummy world, they are too hurt and angry. Well, I don’t think there is just one reason why a kid goes OTD, there are many things involved.
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