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Jarod

Jarod

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What are your thoughts on sending my son to a Jewish School?

Last year we sent him to a Prespitarian School, he liked it and we planned to send him back. This summer he is at a Jewish Day Camp. He LOVES it, and we are considering sending him to school there in the fall! This morning when I dropped him off they put a Yamika on his head and were off to Morning Shabaz.

Now we are not Jewish, my wife and I both come from a Christian background but do not belong to a church. I am just considering the affect sending my son to a "minority" religous institution for school migh have on him, posative and negative.

Any thoughts?
 
Don't do it. It'd be one thing to put your son in a school where there was ethnic and religious diversity, but to make him a gentile in a Jewish religious school is going to make him an outcast on way too many cultural issues.

Are you going to be prepared for your son to come home and tell you that all the traditions you raised him with are wrong? That you eat wrong, dress wrong, pray wrong? Do you want him to have to go through that stress himself?

There are plenty of ways to learn about minority communities in Florida, and especially to engage Jewish friends and neighbors.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
Don't do it. It'd be one thing to put your son in a school where there was ethnic and religious diversity, but to make him a gentile in a Jewish religious school is going to make him an outcast on way too many cultural issues.

Are you going to be prepared for your son to come home and tell you that all the traditions you raised him with are wrong? That you eat wrong, dress wrong, pray wrong? Do you want him to have to go through that stress himself?

There are plenty of ways to learn about minority communities in Florida, and especially to engage Jewish friends and neighbors.
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Thanks for your opinion, (you make a valid point, and thats what I am afraid of) but I know a few Jewish kids who go to Catholic schools and yet they do not go home to tell there parents they are wrong.
 
Jarod said:
What are your thoughts on sending my son to a Jewish School?

Last year we sent him to a Prespitarian School, he liked it and we planned to send him back. This summer he is at a Jewish Day Camp. He LOVES it, and we are considering sending him to school there in the fall! This morning when I dropped him off they put a Yamika on his head and were off to Morning Shabaz.

Now we are not Jewish, my wife and I both come from a Christian background but do not belong to a church. I am just considering the affect sending my son to a "minority" religous institution for school migh have on him, posative and negative.

Any thoughts?
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Drawing solely from my personal experience, I think if you can keep him in the same school, it will greatly help. Going to the same school every year allows the child to form lasting friendships. Those friends will give him the support he may need at times as he grows.

We moved around alot while I was a child and I still remember how having to make new friends almost every year was difficult at times.
 
Is it a particularly good school? Is it a common practice (would they see you as outsiders and react appropriately)? The Jews have been oppressed a long time, and that gives them a much different perspective than most communities, but I'm thinking that if you put them in a setting where they're the majority long enough they can act just as badly as the rest of us.
 
Jarod said:
Thanks for your opinion, (you make a valid point, and thats what I am afraid of) but I know a few Jewish kids who go to Catholic schools and yet they do not go home to tell there parents they are wrong.
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I dunno. I went to public school and kids still told me I was going to hell. I don't really understand why a parent would choose a religious school that would teach against their own values.

They're going to teach your son, at some point, why the basic ideas of Christianity are invalid from a Jewish religious perspective. It's not a place for agreeing to disagree. That's what public and secular school is for.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Drawing solely from my personal experience, I think if you can keep him in the same school, it will greatly help. Going to the same school every year allows the child to form lasting friendships. Those friends will give him the support he may need at times as he grows.

We moved around alot while I was a child and I still remember how having to ]ake new friends almost every year was difficult at times.
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That does explain your inability to "WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE", that you've shown in the past.

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