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Following the exposé about Hasidic yeshivas where children receive almost no secular education, we’ve seen a shifting of goalposts among spokespeople and leaders of the schools. They used to pretend that yeshivas offered a robust secular education, or that their religious education covered the same material as secular education and produced the same or even better! outcomes. Now they’re admitting it doesn’t but insisting this is the parents’ choice to prioritize religion and community values over dominant secular values.