It is a fact that city schools are overcrowded which is one of the reasons why they are failing. The city would have to construct new buildings to be able to take in ALL the yeshiva students. The city would not want to take on such an expensive project which is why I think they would gladly lease our current functioning Yeshive buildings, allow our students to remain there , and they would cover our tuition costs.
You don’t seem to understand. It doesn’t matter if the public school system can absorb all the frum kids or not. I think that over time they can but, let’s say for the sake of argument that they can’t. It doesn’t change anything.
By law, you cannot use public funding to pay for religious schools in New York. It’s in the State Constitution. So, the Board of Ed cannot simply send all of our kids back to yeshiva and say “we’ll pay for it.” It simply cannot happen.
Or, rather, there might be a way this can happen according to you. Sure, the city might lease our school buildings, but then, if it’s a public school, religion can’t be taught at all. So all that would accomplish is to turn the yeshivas into public schools.
Your vision of simply having the State pay for yeshivos is illegal under current New York law. So even if the public school system can’t absorb our kids, they will, by law, have to find a way to get it done – and they can’t do it by simply funding yeshivos.
The Wolf