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I don’t necessarily blame todays Chinuch as a whole because there are some great trailblazing Mechanchim out there. What some Mechanchim out there don’t realize (or refuse to realize) is that we are living in the year 2011, a confusing, distracting, exciting and frightening time. What was taught (and the way it was taught) in the ‘alte heim’ isn’t going to cut it.
What we DO know is, is that Yiddishkeit is beautiful and it speaks for itself. The way we open up the eyes of children to that has to be with different means than previously used. To stand on ceremony and say that this school/Yeshiva isn’t going to do ‘X’ because it was never done before or insisting that girls uphold a ridiculous level of Tznius in school, when they are going home and they dont even do basics….. to me is the wrong way of approaching things.