Jewish View For Choice in Education
May 7th, 2008 by The Outsider
Rabbi Avi Shafran claims that school choice for their children is the fundamental right of the parents or parent to make that choice. He says:
“Education, after all, is much more than the transfer of information, much more, even, than training minds to think. It is the imparting of attitudes, ideals and values as well, particularly today, when so often both parents (when there even are two) are working (sometimes at multiple jobs), and when children (even when they are at home) are regularly left to their own devices (and those of the virtual child-molester we call television). It would be folly to deny that schools help shape a child’s development. Should parents not have the final say about which ones nurture their young?”
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Rabbi Avi Shafran is director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America.