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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s an episode of This American Life that covers some of what happened in a suburban district in NY that I happened to grow up near.  It’s not pretty and honestly this doesn’t bode well for your community.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/534/a-not-so-simple-majority[/quote]

I listened to this story. It is so infuriating and made me shake with anger. The Hasidic community in East Ramapo are monsters. They forcefully took over the public school board (with none of their kids in public school), destroyed the districts budget, killed the schools' extracurricular programs, sports, honors and arts, slashed teacher and admin numbers, forced students to take double lunch and study hall so that they had NO classes during the day which would make it impossible to graduate in 4 years, and shut a fully enrolled elementary school so that they could sell the building to the Hasidic community to convert to a yeshivas. All this so that they could funnel public schools funds to their religious schools and avoid paying taxes. I'm seething with rage.

OP, I am so so sorry. I would be livid if I knew that this was coming to my community. I don't have any advice for you. Just sympathy[/quote]

+1. I was so angry! If a group decides to start private schools and lower standards for children to attend, that's awful for those children, but the family made a choice.

The ER NY situation makes me want to scream because they knowingly pulled so many resources from the public schools to funnel to the private schools. How can a public school board have all private parents? How can these people rest at night knowing what they are doing. Shame on them.[/quote]

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