Reply To: R Soloveichik on girls education

I don’t know what Sarah Schenirer learnt, but I know that while everyone now contrasts BY learning of rishonim v gemora, it was not a long tradition. I went through a whole sefer of Chofetz Chaim letters in the 20s, and he writes a lot about having a kosher Heder in every town v. anti religious Jewish schools, but he offers nothing to girls. I found one letter where he protests sending girls to Polish gymnasia but offers no alternative. In another letter, he summarizes halochos of mikva on 2 pages and asks women who know how to read to read this letter to the unfortunate ladies who do not. He is not suggesting teaching those ladies to read or to send daughters to BYs .. so this is background to RYBS suggestion that the way to have quality education for girls is simply put them into existing classes for boys. It probably made more sense at the time than today , but has some lessons for now also