Two Days and the Brainwashing Has Begun
This past week was Parshas Shoftim and so in parsha class this past Friday, my daughter learned about the Jewish legal system.
The main point of the lesson was about how the Jewish justice system is vastly superior to anything the secular world has to offer. The American justice system, explained the teacher, is entirely corrupt because ALL the judges, every single one, are corrupt. How do we know this? Of course, from what happened to poor old Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, an innocent Jew who rots in prison.
The lesson also included tidbits about how Reform and Conservative Jews are not really Jewish and what they practice isn't Judaism.
Having been a teacher and administrator, I know that you are supposed to support the school blah, blah, blah, but here I just couldn't and just told her the teacher was a moron. Maybe I should have used different terms and said "narrow-minded" instead of moronic. I don't know.
As an aside, I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the principal. She says she likes to meet with new parents and talk about the upcoming year, etc, etc. I don't know how much of this I should bring up and discuss, if at all. From what I understand, she is a very imposing figure and takes things personally and will hold anything critical I say against my child. Some people have advised that I play the relatives card- "our relatives are reform and conservative so we are sensitive to this, blah, blah, blah..."
I guess I'm probably going to go with that unless I think of something better. I'd much rather be more assertive about all this but it will just hurt my kid in the long run.
Ahhh. The joys of a new school year.
The main point of the lesson was about how the Jewish justice system is vastly superior to anything the secular world has to offer. The American justice system, explained the teacher, is entirely corrupt because ALL the judges, every single one, are corrupt. How do we know this? Of course, from what happened to poor old Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, an innocent Jew who rots in prison.
The lesson also included tidbits about how Reform and Conservative Jews are not really Jewish and what they practice isn't Judaism.
Having been a teacher and administrator, I know that you are supposed to support the school blah, blah, blah, but here I just couldn't and just told her the teacher was a moron. Maybe I should have used different terms and said "narrow-minded" instead of moronic. I don't know.
As an aside, I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the principal. She says she likes to meet with new parents and talk about the upcoming year, etc, etc. I don't know how much of this I should bring up and discuss, if at all. From what I understand, she is a very imposing figure and takes things personally and will hold anything critical I say against my child. Some people have advised that I play the relatives card- "our relatives are reform and conservative so we are sensitive to this, blah, blah, blah..."
I guess I'm probably going to go with that unless I think of something better. I'd much rather be more assertive about all this but it will just hurt my kid in the long run.
Ahhh. The joys of a new school year.