Jerusalem – Faced With Lawsuit By Ex-Charedim For Failure To Provide A Proper Education, State Of Israel Threatens To Countersue

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    FILE - View of a Yeshiva in the Jerusalem Bayit VeGan neighborhood on March 29, 2016. Photo by Yonatan sindel/Flash90 Jerusalem – Israel’s state prosecutor has announced that if it loses a suit brought by formerly observant men charging them with failing to provide a sound education, it will countersue approximately 90 Charedi school as well as the parents of the plaintiffs.

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    The unusual move was reported today by Haaretz and comes in response to a $1.1 million suit filed by 52 men who attended Charedi schools. It charges that by supporting ultra-Orthodox schools whose curriculums include virtually no secular studies, the state played a part in that education which, according to the suit, left the plaintiffs unqualified to find decent jobs.

    “The plaintiffs finished their studies with only basic knowledge of subjects like math, English and science,” said the suit, which noted that the plaintiffs were able to supplement the gaps in their education but only with significant expenditures of time and personal funds. The lawsuit also alleged that because the plaintiffs are no longer religiously observant they are further discriminated against because they are ineligible for programs that help Charedim augment their education and get jobs.

    “The state is denying all responsibility, in a way more fitting for an insurance company,” said Shlomo Lecker, attorney for the plaintiffs, who said that the plaintiffs did not have the ability to make choices about their education as children.

    The state argued that it bears no responsibility in the matter, saying that it is parents who chose those schools and the institutions themselves who are to blame.

    Mirit Savion, an attorney for the state said that the State of Israel provides a wide array of schools for its citizens, but is in no way responsible for choices made by individuals and that any complaints should be directed “at their parents or at the schools where they studied.”

    Parents “knowingly chose these schools for their children,” wrote Savion, saying that the schools “refrained from teaching basic subjects in violation of the law and/or violated other obligations and directives.”

    The lawsuit was organized by Out for Change, an organization which advocates for former Charedim. The group faulted the state for refusing to acknowledge its responsibility in the matter.

    “It’s the state’s job to enforce the law and obligate parents to teach their children the core [curriculum],” it said. “Since the state didn’t do so, it bears responsibility for the situation those children are in today.”


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    elyeh
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    elyeh
    7 years ago

    “Chickens coming home to roost”

    Maybe if the state of Israel looses the lawsuit they will actually do something about those yeshivas.

    And maybe someone will bring this kind of lawsuit in New York and even in New Jersey, and then the state and cities will begin to do something about the shameful English/math and so forth classes in yeshivas here.

    7 years ago

    In new square, it’s the intention to keep all students illiterate. It’s too late for all if them since they graduate with no English or math classes. They can’t even write their signature on documents.

    shvache_teritz
    shvache_teritz
    7 years ago

    Sore losers
    Bunch of low go’s

    shvigger
    shvigger
    7 years ago

    Haskalah revisited. Been there, done that.

    kenyaninwhitehouse
    kenyaninwhitehouse
    7 years ago

    get rid of the welfare state and they will RUN to work.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    7 years ago

    People: This is not funny! I recently went to a dr.’s office and while in the waiting room, a Chassidishe young man came in with his mother. The appt. was for him. The nurse brought him the paperwork to fill out. He could not fill it out. He handed it to his mother and asked her to do it for him. She did so and he signed it. If this is what our community is coming to, then this generation will need to take classes at night in English both written and oral. It is not just for work. You need it for day to day living!!

    7 years ago

    The boys in high school don’t want to learn any English or Math. They believe it is a waste of their time. Their parents allow them and even encourage them to think this way. It is the parents as well as the students who are wasting the money that is given to them by the government. It’s a waste to provide books for them and the students are wasting any tuition money their parents are paying for them. The Rebbeim are at fault as well by perpetuating the idea that secular studies are a waste of time. Not only are these boys growing up to be illiterate, they are also not mentches to their secular studies teachers.
    Yes, there might be a handful of people who become successful, but most of the time, those people have intelligent frum or even non frum role models to show them how to do it. Many of these people come from parents who are ba’alei teshuva who themselves had great educations, live out in the world, and either overtly or subliminally teach their children that it’s important to have an education. If you look at many of the influential frum people, you will see that many of them are ba’alei teshuva who have a secular education under their belts. And even if they

    7 years ago

    And even if they are not ba’alei teshuva, they received a good education so that they can make their way in the world.