NY STATE TO YESHIVA PARENTS: CHILDREN DO THINGS OUR WAY, OR PARENTS GO TO JAIL!

 

I have to say that the Ribbono Shel Oilom has a great sense of humor. 

Remember when R' Zalman Leib, Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe, brought $5 million to Israel to distribute to Israeli Yeshivois that refused to take money from the Medina? Well that money lasted about 7 days. Most of those yeshivois had to start taking the money from the medina, otherwise the melamdim would starve to death. Belz has officially and publicly announced that they will comply with the "medina's educational requirement so as to get the funds.

So what did the Ribbono Shel Oilom do try try to put some sense into them? 

He tested them back in their own turf in Williamsburg! The Satmar and other Chassidishe Moisdois all take money from the Medina, yes absolutely, they take money from the US Medina, but with taking money come strings attached; they will have to teach Math, English , Social Studies, Chas Ve'sholom! 

When you guys mess with our "medina" Hashem will mess with your "medina" 

The Board of Regents met today and received a presentation from the State Education Department about the new proposed regulations of private schools. It has already been  reported that all of the non-Jewish schools in the State will be exempt under the new regulations, leaving only Yeshivas subject to the review and approval of local school districts.

 At the last minute the State Education Department, led by Commissioner Betty Rosa, slipped in a section to the regulations that threatens jail time for parents who send to a non-complying yeshiva.

The new section is 130.14 and is titled Penalties and Enforcement. “Any violation of the compulsory education requirements contained in Article 65 of the Education Law is subject to the penalties prescribed in Education Law 3233.”

This bureaucratic language is threatening, not harmless. Article 65 refers to the compulsory education requirement that parents send their children to a school that provides substantially equivalent instruction. Education Law 3233 provides that a first offense is punishable by ten days’ imprisonment, and each subsequent offense by imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.

That’s right: These regulations threaten jail time for parents who send to a yeshiva that the local school district deems non-equivalent.

What about parents who continue to send their children to failing public schools? They are applauded and rewarded by the State.