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yita: That is a great line!
It is a shame that boys dont learn navi, or chumash either for the most part, to the same degree that all girls, not just seminary, do. There has been a movement however towards teaching boys more nach from as young as 4th grade – the story line if not inside which is better than nothing!
Another subject in which the boys suffer a major handicap is Jewish history, aka “Historia.” Your average Bais Yaakov high school girl can rattle off lists of tannaim, amoraim, etc. in chrnological order (even if they can’t do it down the line.) The reason why this is even more of a handicap than lack of Navi is that these names are all over the gemara and they should know who came first – a gaon cant argue with an amora, and an amora cant argue with a tana. (I hope I got that order right, its been a while 😉 )