Ubiquitin- If a member of a particular chassius (I don’t want people to think that I am beating up on Satmar, so lets just use the generic term “chassidic”) wants to educate his child in a manner that is diametrically opposed to the chassidic philosophy, I would tend to believe that there is a larger issue at hand. For a school to start teaching secular studies properly, it requres more than hiring a few qualified teachers, buying books and allocating time. You are changing the entire outlook of the school. I would venture that we could compare it to asking a mainstram yeshiva to institute a “don’t ask don’t tell” policy.(Which obviously wouldn’t fly). In addition, schooling is almost always a factor in where people choose to live. I personally send my children to a school that necessitates traveling between an hour and an hour and a half every day. This is because I feel that the chinuch is more in line with my values than the closer ones. This is my choice. I have no right to demand the closer schools change the way they do things. As far as price, there is an expression” You get what you pay for”. You want to send to a school because the tuition is lower, and then you feel that you can make demands on them to change the way they do things??? It sort of smacks a little of hubris.
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