He attended a Jewish school where they believed it was a waste of time to study anything other than Jewish religion texts. As a result, he was left with no job skills other than teaching Aramaic.
This sort of thing is now a controversy in Quebec, with the government wanting to shut down such schools.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.629275
Without commenting on the actual merits of this lawsuit: I'm all for the rights of people to homeschool or go to religious schools but to me this sort of thing starts to fall more unto the category of people who claim to homeschool but really don't. (I knew one person who was "homeschooled" but taught nothing after third grade, and as a result had no future.) You need to at least teach the alphabet, for example.
This sort of thing is now a controversy in Quebec, with the government wanting to shut down such schools.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.629275
Without commenting on the actual merits of this lawsuit: I'm all for the rights of people to homeschool or go to religious schools but to me this sort of thing starts to fall more unto the category of people who claim to homeschool but really don't. (I knew one person who was "homeschooled" but taught nothing after third grade, and as a result had no future.) You need to at least teach the alphabet, for example.
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