Reply To: July 4 and Yom Ha'Atzma'us

I really really don’t want to get into another Emmanuel discussion, I’m just interested in a general hashkafic discussion about Medinas Yisro’el. However, to respond to the Emmanuel point (though I’m probably getting it wrong) we’re talking about public schools and not private schools. There are only a certain amount of resources in each public school and I don’t think the USA either would allow and entire district to move all or most of its students into an already existing public school, it would be too much. And if a parent refuses to send their child to school in the USA, I imagine that’s an arrestable offense also.

Many parents in the U.S. home school. So, in fact, they do not send their children to school. -77