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Anyone can home school their children, but if you mean the few who are being rejected, their parents work and so can’t home school their children.
I mean those who do not want to have their children forcibly with other Jewish children that may not be up to their “higher standards”. For example (that Yekke2 brought), their father did not see the local mikvah personally being filled with Mei Geshamim and not Mayim Sheuvim (which is a much bigger issue than meat being shechted, if you are going to throw out the Klal of “Eid Echad Ne’eman B’Issurim”).
Part of the problem is that yeshivas are partially funded at a lower rate than Israeli Public Schools which would take them in. There are Less Macmur yeshivas that would take them in but they are out of the district. In my opinion school busing is a better solution to this problem. Placing them in a school that wants them is better than forcing them on a school that doesn’t and it will be a better learning environment.
Sounds reasonable, but why does the “school”, which is being funded by the government (albeit at a lower rate than the schools that teach vocational studies), have the ability to reject someone in their “district”? Why wouldn’t the government simply go in, fire the principal, and put someone else in who would accept these children?
And if it is a public/private partnership, why doesn’t the government withhold funding?
(these are rhetorical)