Posted on 10/04/2022 5:40:00 AM PDT by Bratch
The New York Times published a report in late September targeting Hasidic Yeshivas — alleging students “[know] nothing” and grow up “barely [able] to support their own families” — coinciding with a Board of Regents vote to regulate their religious education. However, Breitbart News has learned that the Times omitted relevant information, shunned sources directly involved with the schools, and declined to publish pertinent on-the-record statements, in pursuing the story — resulting in a funhouse mirror hit piece, pressuring the board’s unanimous vote to force state edicts on the religious schools.
Breitbart News has learned the Times did not establish communication relevant to reporting with at least two schools the story is based on — titled, “In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money” — until days before publication, with request for comment on the final product. Breitbart has identified two instances of relevant sources to the story speaking to the Times and having their statements disregarded. Breitbart has also learned of one instance where the Times accused two schools of the same claim of corporal punishment, and two instances where request for comment was responded to but never published.
Breitbart has reviewed correspondence between the Times and teachers and administrators from various Hasidic Yeshivas from different sects, reviewed class work from a Hasidic Yeshiva, a breakdown of public funding for a Hasidic Yeshiva, and public data, showing the Times obfuscated information to produce a broad story with little bearing on the complex facts of what it is talking about.
Most of the sources who spoke with Breitbart requested their names and identities be concealed.
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I don’t understand who is regulating the school. That was not regulating them before.
Foxes invade henhouses. That is what they do.
If they refused to acknowledge contradictory evidence, then it may have been due to malice.
NYT: “Hitler misunderstood!”
My concern is, if it is OK to publish smears against Jewish private schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools and home schools are targets, too.
The regulating is saying the Hasidic schools are not covering enough “basic” education, leaving particularly the female students knowing the Torah but not getting much else of an eduction.
Stalin’s Soviet Union really is a workers’ paradise...
I can understand that. But I don’t understand the regulators. If the school is not educating girls, the school should be unaccredited not regulated.
A Sunday school teaches religion. And this school is being accused of being a Sunday school. A Sunday school should never have a non-religious board. You can get an English degree or an African studies degree and not be prepared for any job. Frankly all any education needs to teach is enough math to balance a check book. And enough English to create a resume. Many college students don’t even know that much.
Some Hasidic K-12 schools do teach girls.
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