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Logician:
Your position is dangerous. Let me explain.
Chinuch is a partnership between yeshivos and parents. And everything needs to be taught everywhere. The failure of that arrangement is the failure to raise a child to follow in the derech of Torah and Mitzvos. Homework, for example, is NOT to accomplish the teaching of the academic subjects outside of the classroom, but to extend the school work into the home environment – to bridge the two. Likewise, the reason to choose schools with hashkafos similar to the families of origin is to leave less room for disparity. These relationships create stability that is crucial for successful growth. The wedges between home and school are disastrous and damaging.
There will always be minor differences, and these can be used to add color to the picture, but not stark opposites.
Each and every moment in a child’s life is a potential teaching moment, and it needs to be exploited as such. Whether we are addressing use of internet, technology in general, whether we discuss and implement acts of chesed, whether midos,, whether tefillah or learning Torah – the payoff of proper use is great. maybe that is what is intended in Pirkei Avos – ????? ??? ????? ??? ???, which obligates us as learners. It must be a ?? ????? for us as teachers.