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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What annoyed me more than the oppression of women and such was that when they wanted out that NY courts did not assist. They wanted the children of divorce to stay in the same environment. That's insane. It's like telling the kids of two abusive parents that since it's all they've known that they need to keep being abused.

The city and the state seemed to be failing this society. And how do they get around minimum schooling requirements?[/quote]

This I agree with. We have a struggle in our country between individual rights and the rights of parents and religious freedom. I think it is a big problem that we don't consider it a RIGHT for children to know their first amendment rights, their rights to a free, secular education, and any other rights that their parents are withholding from them.

As for the schooling requirements, they are going to school. It's just purely religious instruction. We have no basic national standards in this country.[/quote]

There are state standards though.  They don't meet them.  They buy off politicians and local officials, so they've gotten away with it.  That to me is the key.   If the children were given a state-standard education, it could end the isolation.  But again, because they operate essentially as a cult, they don't want that.

And as a pp noted, they don't consider themselves part of America.  They don't celebrate Thanksgiving.  Non-Hasidic school bus drivers have to work that day because they still have school.  It's strange to drive through upstate NY and see billboards all in Hebrew. [/quote]

So why doesn't the governor crack down on corrupt politicians? I truly don't care what religion people practice, but I hate to see kids with no future because they never were educated in America. [/quote]

He's one of them!!  He gets the bloc vote, just like his dad did.  I'm not a rabid Cuomo-hater like many people I know, but both he and his father owed the community for their votes.  [/quote]

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