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>But Bobby Baptist's kids going to Jesus Is Lord Day School is assimilating those kids into their society at large and Jesus Is Lord Day School still needs to meet the curriculum and testing standards that any other school in the state has to. And more often than not those private schools are _exceeding_ the standard of the public education system.

Are they? There are a lot of folks who would disagree (and many of those are graduates of such institutions) with that assessment[0]:

   The city has determined that four Orthodox yeshivas are failing to provide
   an education “substantially equivalent” to what’s offered in public schools — 
   and recommends the state reach the same conclusion for another 14 yeshivas 
   the city says are ultimately under state authority.
   
   The findings are the results of a long-stalled and politically thorny 
   investigation that has stretched on since 2015.

   The city found that just seven schools they investigated met standards. 
   That’s in addition to two it found were up to standards in 2019.
   [...]
   The investigation was spurred by a complaint from a group called Young 
   Advocates for a Fair Education, or YAFFED, headed at the time by a yeshiva 
   graduate who argued his education left him ill-prepared for the world outside 
   of religious studies. YAFFED and other critics argue many so-called ultra-
   Orthodox yeshivas provide little to no secular instruction, particularly for 
   boys, and instead focus on religious studies. Representatives of the schools 
   have pushed back strenuously on those claims.

   The schools are private, but do receive some state funding and, like all 
   private schools in New York, are required to provide children with an 
   education “substantially equivalent” to what is offered in public schools. 
   The investigation kicked off a debate of what exactly substantially 
   equivalent means, prompting the state to develop rules for determining it. 
   
And that's just one city in the US. I am unaware of such reviews in other places (some likely do exist, I just haven't heard about it -- please do jump in if you're aware of similar investigations), but religious schools (of whatever stripe) exist to support their preferred religion above all else.

Public funding (and especially taking funds away from secular public schools) of religious schools is antithetical to the idea of a secular government and society.

[0] https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/06/30/new-yor...



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