About a week ago Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, a well regarded MO rabbi from New Jersey, referenced on his site a new study that finds that 50% of the graduates of Modern Orthodox high schools are no longer Shabbos or Kashrus observant within two years of their graduation. This shocking statistic came only a year after another study found that 25% of those graduates who attend secular colleges assimilate during college and completely abandon Torah and mitzvos.
So am I to understand that the ones who don’t go to secular college are going OTD at even higher rates?
And if we assume half of them go to college, then we’d have to say that 75% of those who don’t go OTD! Amazing.
IOW: why are we getting worked up over a clearly false set of data?