Syag > we were actually discussing is that you are happier with your kid’s exposure to this other stuff than learning “too much religion”.
This is not what I am trying to say. I am responding to people who say that exposure to public ed is all about inappropriate behaviors and bad ideas. I am giving you an example of what one can learn from it. I am not saying it is harmless, just giving people ideas of what it really is.
> Is this really a family mesorah or just what you picked?
It is. Both my wife and I have several generations of people with medical/engineering/business experience; some Jewishly educated well, some less, depending on place & time. This is not about philosophy of combining Torah and Derech Eretz/Maddah, etc, it is simply a way of applying oneself in a trade honestly, while being true to Torah at the same time. You seem to argue vehemently with me in the issue of chinuch, but not in other issues of middos and politics. Maybe, just maybe, if you are generally OK with what I learned from my predecessors, B’H same will apply to my kids.
My only difference from my parents and grandparents is that they did not argue about the derech on internet. Maybe, I should have followed.