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“Just because a parent uses government funds to pay for his child’s schooling, funds that are taxpayer’s fund not some nebulous entity called “the government’s” money, that the taxpayers themselves gave to the government to fund their children’s schooling, does not give the government the right to dictate to the school how to educate the children against the parent’s choices in education. “
The vast majority of that money, which you say came from the taxpayers, really comes from non-Charaidi taxpayers.”
NOTE: A greater percentage of Chareidi/Frum tax money goes to support the secular school system than the percentage of non-Chareidi/Frum tax money that is going to support the Chareidi/Frum schools, since all of the secular schools are completely public, wheareas the majority of Chareidi schools are private.
NOTE 2: This is a Jewish country, and really all of the schools should be run according to the Torah. At the very least, the Torah community should be able to educate their kids the way they desire. It should be the Frum people determining how the secular schools are run (in terms of religious issues such as teaching Torah from a Torah perspective, etc). If that is not going to happen, at the very least, it should be the Gedolim who determine how the Frum schools are run and not the government (at the very least when it comes to Religious issues).