OneOfMany –
You mean a principal told you that girls are to stupid? That’s sad. Pretty ignorant too. How would he explain the fact that 60 percent of Bachelor’s Degrees currently go to women? And so on.
As for your question. I don’t want to get involved in the whole debate right now regarding the status of women with regard to studying Torah. But everyone agrees that women do not have the same obligation of Torah study as men, as the Gemara derives their exemption in Kiddushin 29b. If math and science are “like jewelry” for a woman, and you are exempt from learning Torah anyway, then why not learn the math and science? You can learn Torah also, but there is no reason to put so much emphasis on it, as if it needs to be the basis of the entire curriculum. Personally I think that the reason they are teaching girls Nach and all is simply because they got this idea that girls have to learn all day just like guys (which, by the way, I don’t fully agree with either), but they feel that girls shouldn’t learn Gemara, so what will they learn? Nach is the next choice! Which is stupid. Girls don’t need to learn all day. They should be taught Halacha and the basics and if they want to learn more, they should have the option, but otherwise they should be given the opportunity if not the push to grow academically in other subjects such as advanced math and the sciences etc. Anyway I got a bit carried away.