ubiq, do you make up bubbe maaisas as you go along and call them the facts, to fit and attempt to support and shore up your mistaken notions and incorrect assertions? Your 8:12am post (#2125303) takes the cake as your most inventive. (For this thread; over the years in other threads you’ve gone even further.)
1. Public school equivalency is NOT defined by offering the Regents. Nothing in the equivalency law says a blasted thing about the Regents or offering any State standardized testing for that matter.
2. What the Board of Regents voted on earlier this week are REGULATIONS, *NOT*’ the LAW. FYI — laws are only enacted by the legislature, no one else in NYS.
3. The NYS law mandates private schools must teach equivalent to what the public schools teach. As simple as that. The law makes NO DISTINCTION between math, arts, English, gym, science or sex education.
4. Even those new regulations voted on this week are NOT effective yet. It has a future effective date. As of today nothing changed regarding the public school equivalency law than what has been on the NYS law books for over the last 100 plus years.
5. The new regulations, even when they become effective, do not change the law. It merely instructs the multiple local Education Departments in the various municipalities across the State on how to enforce the law.
6. The regulations stipulate that ONE OF the methods a school can demonstrate public school equivalency is by administrating the Regents exams to their students; and IF sufficient numbers pass the Regents that will demonstrate the school is compliant for public school equivalency in those subjects that sufficient students passed the exam.
7. The new regulations also give alternative options for private schools to demonstrate public school equivalency compliance without giving the Regents. No private school is required to give their students the Regents or any other standardized tests. This has been the case until now and will remain so even with the new regulations.
To repeat and reiterate, NYS Education Law Section 3204(2) requires private schools provide full public school equivalency. There is NO DISTINCTION under the law between math, English, science, music, arts or sex education. Satmar’s deficiency in English is the same non-compliance as is Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim’s deficiency in teaching sex education that’s offered in public school. Rachmitsrivka’s deficiency in teaching science is just as bad under the law as Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s deficiency in teaching arts and music.
No Yeshiva or Beis Yaakov in the entire State of New York is compliant (possibly excluding Modern Orthodox schools like Ramaz and Yeshiva of Flatbush), as their are much objectionable material from the public school, both in content and time, that it is impossible for a Torah school to be in compliance with the public school equivalency law.
P.S. My advance apologies for my strong words; you’ve done this too many times to point them out again with a poker face and neutral voice. You’re still my brother and I say all this with brotherly love.