LU: charedi in EY has a very jaded/antagonistic attitude toward secular education. For boys in chadarim, RRA is given very short shrift if at all (serious elite institutions may have nothing or just rudimentary math. Girls have more, obviously, and some advance to further educatiom. There is at the very moment a huge tug of war about BY girls going to college and beyond, the one side saying it is necessary for parnasa, and the other saying it is spiritual suicide. The “suicide” camp seems to be carrying the vote. This is no doubt due to the commonality of today’s breadwinner women heading out to work all dolled up (a tznius thread in itself) I have previously voiced the opinion that those who claim the nefoshos can’t “hack it” and won’t endure in the secular workplace and in the army are admitting to producing an inferior product. (an education/child rearing thread in it self)
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