Reply To: Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Fighting NY Department of Education

99% of that applies to the Yeshiva students as well. The only difference is they don’t have a shitta to reject social services. Nevertheless, they too have a “long history as a successful and self-sufficient segment of American society” and their overall usage of social services is not materially much greater than graduates of the New York City public school system.

And the entire references to social services in the system is almost a footnote. The vast majority of the other positive attributes applied, equally apply to the Yeshiva graduates who by forgoing a portion of the additional years of compulsory education will not impair the physical or mental health of the child, or result in an inability to be self-supporting or to discharge the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, or in any other way materially detract from the welfare of society.” The yeshivos produce the most law abiding citizens productively engaged in civil society and are a highly successful social unit within our society, even if apart from the conventional “mainstream.” Especially compared to public school graduates who are far more likely to end up in prison or worse.