Sunday 11 April 2010

Improving Chinuch

If I had to change or improve upon just ONE aspect of contemporary Jewish Life - it would be the education system. I found this post while looking for something else. But it was bashert...

The biggest complaints frum teenagers have today - even more than about their parents - are about their schools. Not about too much homework, or mean teachers, or the typical "teenage" complaints. Rather, they express anger, bitterness, disbelief, shock, and even tears, over what they feel is an abandonment of their needs by their schools, in favor of what is more beneficial for the school's public image.

Teenagers are losing faith in their role models because they feel they are not cared for by them. In this, teenagers and adults are not at odds. Whenever I speak about chinuch, the audience never fails to express their dissatisfaction with our educational "system"...»


See
FrumTeens.com - Torah for Teenagers
http://www.frumteens.com/topic.php?topic_id=112&forum_id=10&topic_title=What

KT
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1 comment:

Dr Mike said...

> Rather, they express anger, bitterness, disbelief, shock, and even tears, over what they feel is an abandonment of their needs by their schools, in favor of what is more beneficial for the school's public image.

Well that is how the real world works. They can be upset or they can take notes for how to follow in that inexorable example.