Squeak, I didn’t go to CCNY 🙂 And I am a permanent Con Ed employee – not an intern. I’ve been with the company almost 4 years.
I didn’t talk about volume of secular education – just quality. There is no reason why math (which is actually very important in learning halacha) can’t be taught better at some of these schools. Its not always quantity, but quality.
Yes, there are other schools that are cheaper than the $12,000-$15,000 who have great educations. But Joseph asked what parents pay and although my son is not in Yeshiva yet, I started researching numbers. Those are actual numbers from parents who pay.
Yes, of course that is subsidizing. But keep in mind – where I live, most of the parents both have professional (or semi-professional) jobs, or one parent is well paid. There are also less children per household (the new MO regular number is approximately 4 based on an unofficial poll), so even parents that struggle have less children to send through Yeshiva. Tuition might be double (or a little more), but the cost is the approximately the same as having 8-10 kids in Yeshiva at half the cost.