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| Beatrice Weber |
by Beatrice Weber
In September 2019, almost 1,000 days ago, I filed a complaint with New York City and Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem, alleging that my youngest son, who was 6 years old at the time, was not receiving a secular education as required by NYS law.
The New York Supreme Court this past week finally confirmed [https://forward.com/fast-forward/505315/state-supreme-court-sides-with-mother-in-dispute-over-sons-yeshiva-education] what I’ve known all along: The Education Department is not following up on complaints that the Hasidic yeshivas are failing to provide a secular education, but instead is giving parents the runaround.
I am a mother of 10 children, six of them boys, all of whom have attended Hasidic yeshivas where they receive six hours of instruction in basic English and math a week at best, for just five of their elementary school years.




