Looking for a High School
While at the convention in New York, I spent a lot of time researching high schools. We’ll be sending our eldest daughter, Chanaleh, out of town for 9th grade next year, and we need to find a suitable school for her. You may have gone through this kind of process before. Maybe not for ninth grade, but perhaps for college. Thank G-d, Chanaleh is a wonderful girl and I’m sure she’ll do fine wherever she goes. But where she goes matters too. If we sent her to public school, I’m sure she’d be a fine doctor or lawyer. If we sent her to an “ultra orthodox school” I’m sure she’d find a studious man to marry and work really hard to support a large family while he would sit in Kollel (yeshiva for married men) all day, and hopefully learn Torah. But we want to send her to a Chabad school. It’s a very special education and worldview that Chabad schools instill in their students. My mother noticed it when looking for an appropriate preschool for me, some thirty plus years ago. After tou...