Thread by @RonColeman

This is huge.

https://twitter.com/janebcoleman/status/1639255917819490304

What I mean is that this court decision has huge implications for #schoolchoice. Whether private schools, religious or not, or #homeschool, every stitch removed from the seam that binds American children to public schools - an increasingly debased institution - is critical.

New York's regulatory attack on Jewish religious schools was instigated largely by self-exiled former hasidim lashing out at the school systems they blamed for their unhappiness. See this by @JaneBColeman: legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/ny-tim…

But these activists found ready allies in their efforts to destroy the vast network of orthodox Jewish religious schools among New York's vast woke civic and political subcultures -- not least by the harpies of its ruling teachers union, eager to eliminate stiff competition.

But I repeat myself.

https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1554937183148150785?s=20

As Jane wrote in her earlier @LegInsurrection piece I linked to above, in which she quotes @liel:

"Say what you will about Hasidic communities... you can’t gainsay their success, writes Liel Leibovits:
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

"'The community that runs these schools produces individuals who grow up in multigenerational homes, live close to and support each other throughout life, raise children, live according to their virtues >

"'and spend their days doing things they love and believe are of the utmost importance. As a result, they are happier.

'Don’t believe me? Maybe you’d like to glance at that hotbed of Haredi propaganda, The Journal of Psychology >

'which, in a 2020 study titled “Prioritizing Patterns and Life Satisfaction Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews: The Moderating Role of the Sense of Community,” came up with the following conclusion: >
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31891333/

'Haredi Jews are happier. “The results,” read the survey, “demonstrated that prioritizing meaning and sense of community were positively associated with life satisfaction … >

'"Our findings suggest that even in extremely close-knit community-oriented societies, a strong sense of belonging to a community enables individuals to prioritize more hedonic aspects of their lives in order to promote their life satisfaction.”' >

"That is because," concludes @JaneBColeman, "from the time they enter school, the children in these communities are receiving the instruction that will fit them for their place in society,

"just not the society of the readers of the New York Times." <>