To 646:
“Batei Din are also known (I know of one case first hand) to threaten people that there kids will be taken out of school if someone refuses to Arbitrate in a B”D or opposes a Psak in secular Court.”
I am sure you can succeed in finding shoemakers, politicians, lawyers, rabbonim, dayanim, and grocers who are dishonest, and downright evil in their ways. You know of one such case, and I know more than one. But that does not legitimize going to arka’os, and it does not mean that there is any reason to buck the halacha because you want to or feel you are being treated unfairly.
The threat stuff you speak of is not done by a beis din, but as a personal matter from one or more members of the BD. As I acknowledge, there are some rotten, corrupt, and evil people out there, and they can be found in any field or career. You are looking to trash the entire concept of beis din because you disagree with some things that have happened. Well I will not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The corrupt dayanim will certainly get what they deserve at some point, and I agree that the community deserves to be rid of them. You are not addressing individuals, but an entire system. That is flagrantly against Shulchan Aruch, and no one should accept this approach.