GITGEZUGT, You’re wrong and I’ll correct you, with the help of other coffee drinkers. In my estimation, the frummer the crowd, the less OTD kids, and I invite everyone to contend otherwise.
Those of you who finished high-school: what percentage of your classmates went OTD? And how would you label your school (Chassidish, Yeshivish, MO)? (Let’s agree that OTD means chilul shabbos and treifus r”l. A chassidish or Yeshivish “OTD” kid who watches TV is no worse than a good MO kid.)
OK, let’s begin. I went to a chassidish school the frummest you can find. OTD rate: 0%. In fact not a single girl in the entire school(s) went OTD in my day. By now there are 2 OTD kids from that school (One from a broken home, crazy mom, the other in the process of teshuvah b”H), out of THOUSANDS of graduates! OTD rate: 0.01%?
Three of my kids finished high school in the same circles, frummest in the US (or world). OTD rates: 0%
Of course several of their classmates are a little more modern than their parents (using makeup, longer shaitel, listening to radio) but that doesn’t count. One boy in one of my sons’ elementary school came from a divorced home, custodial mother’s Yiddishkeit iffy (she had friends over who watched TV on shabbos); he left school and I don’t know how he ended up, probably not OK.
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