Comments on: We Need to Rethink Girls’ Education

By: correct!

correct! — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:08:10 +0000

In reply to Mendy Hecht. Absolutely!

By: Hashgaha that i saw this article

Hashgaha that i saw this article — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:45:13 +0000

I strongly disagree unfortunately
This is very MACHO

By: Learning can be interesting

Learning can be interesting — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:02:16 +0000

I had some teachers who brought Chumash to life and made it feel like we were living with them. It’s a matter of being open and not being stuck to the way it was done for the last few decades.

We can do it better.

By: Home economics

Home economics — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:55:19 +0000

In other communities, it’s normal for girls to learn cooking, baking, sewing (real garment making), and other life skills. The girls enjoy it and leave school with something they will put to use (unlike trigonometry and French).

By: Teachers.

Teachers. — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:14:32 +0000

In reply to Inspiring girls.

Teachers need to be a role model.
“Do as I say and not what I do” is what a lot of the teachers are doing…
You can’t impart any role modeling besides for the text you are teaching, if your own life and hashkafas don’t match that.
School is not about having a fun time, though yes, you need fun for it to be a learning experience and to impart over the information.
If we had better role models that actually connect and guide the students. With a proper framework of caring and connection from the school staff, anything is possible. Without that, nothing is possible.

By: The parents' achrayus

The parents' achrayus — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:47:21 +0000

Chinuch has always been the achrayus of parents with the schools merely acting as a shliach. That being said, every school has an agenda regarding what expectations it has for their students, and molds its curriculum and extracurricular accordingly. When parents choose a school for their children, they need to ensure that the value system of the school aligns with their own. In rare exception, there could exist a school that lacks a vision of what they’re looking to produce in terms of being mechanich.;this seems to be the case that you describe. An entire system cannot be bashed based on an exception to the rule that exists.

By: The Torah learning is the greatest gift to our generation of women!

The Torah learning is the greatest gift to our generation of women! — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:28:46 +0000

School is school, but beyond school, the Torah, halacha, and chassidus we learned in Bais Rivkah high school – even if at times, it seemed just for the test – is what continues to inspire my life as a wife, mother, and shlucha. It laid the foundation upon which I build my own home and family and community. Discussions and farbrengens are certainly important, they go hand in hand with in-depth learning. May Torah learning for girls become ever stronger, empowering them to continue learning even more on their own, and inspiring the next generation in building their homes steeped in Torah and Chassidishkeit.

By: Mendy Hecht

Mendy Hecht — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:19:44 +0000

It all depends on what they get from their parents, especially their mothers, at home. If Mommy loves being frum, etc., then the girl could get the worst chinuch and still become a happy adult, and if the reverse is true, we could have the finest educators and schools, etc. and the talmidos turning out less-than-ideal.

By: yes!

yes! — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:12:25 +0000

Thank you for bringing up this vital and painful topic. An easy problem to diagnose. Who is having success treating this problem?

By: Inspiring girls

Inspiring girls — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:56:21 +0000

Girls always learned by watching and doing.
Watching Mommy cook, then helping Mommy cook, then cooking on the own.
Many girls love acting, singing and dancing.

ULY has their 7 & 8th graders performing fantastic Generation Seven productions.

People talk about it for weeks after. The messages are embedded in everyone’s soul, in an alive and beautiful way.

Let the girls do that too.
Act out the Navi, act out kashering chickens and kitchens for Pesach. Act out the laws of this and tznius and anything else.
Each grade, several times a year.

There’s added benefits
Kosher entertainment
Fundraising for the school
Happy girls who are excited to live as Jews!

Anyone willing to give it a try?

By: wow

wow — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:33:52 +0000

Great point. Thank you very much for bringing this up.

By: Girls and boys are not the same

Girls and boys are not the same — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:23:38 +0000

One of the big misconceptions is that now that girls learn it is the same as boys. Any good teacher knows that girls learn very differently to boys – both in their interest and how they process the information.

It’s about time to create a curriculum which is geared towards girls learning in an interesting and exciting way.

By: Finally

Finally — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:18:09 +0000

There needs to be a change with the way we educate our girls. We teach them dry text through rote and memorization and then we wonder why they aren’t turned on by yiddishkait.