LONDON (VINnews) — A girls’ yeshiva in England has been told by the government that it cannot tell girls to refrain from wearing “brightly colored” clothing.
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A watchdog group has ruled that while the school has the right to prohibit certain colors, the current instructions are too vague, and the yeshiva must be more specific in its definition of “bright”.
As reported in the UK’s Jewish Chronicle, an anonymous complaint was filed with the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) against several policies of Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School in Hackney.
One issue is the school’s dress code, which was created for tznius purposes. In its ruling, the OSA’s Dr. Bryan Slater pointed to the ambiguity of the rule, saying: “I think it probable that most people would agree that some objects one could imagine were brightly colored, but that it is not possible to know where the dividing line between ‘bright’ and ‘not bright’ would be drawn by all people.”
He also felt that the use of certain Hebrew words in the dress code violated OSA policies, because they prevent parents from easily interpreting the rules.
In addition, the agency ruled that the yeshiva must accept more students for certain grade levels than its current limit. However Dr. Slater overruled one complaint that suggested that the yeshiva’s admission policies are discriminatory
The yeshiva receives funding from the state.
Don’t receive state funds and dictate exactly how you want to educate the children. Shame on the “Moser” for reporting the school. Disgruntled little…
Of all the hackneyed rulings! While school dress code policies might seem trivial or trite, tznius has a fundamental purpose. Intrinsic value should be emphasized over external appearance. The choice of the term “bright” is merely a euphemism.
There is a dress code for visiting the royal family. The royal family receives government money. There is a dress code for those who work in the white house – they get government money. There are uniforms for fire fighters and police. The Jewish uniform is to be tznius – there are differing standards of what that entails ,- but loud colors are a problem. The school has a right to make a dress code.
“The yeshiva receives funding from the state.”
If that is the case than the state gets to dictate policies to the yeshiva.
All those that maintain that the mosdos should not be taking government funding and that there is sufficient money in our community to support these mosdos – you are living in la la land. There may be enough money by our gevirim to support all our mosdos, but that doesn’t mean that they will give it. That leaves raising the parents tuition to the level that covers all the costs. Are you prepared to pay the bill? Surely not.
So we have to walk the tightrope with the government regs and daven for Siyata DIshmaya..
Brits haven’t changed in 1000 years. Still the same anti semites since the crusaders. Just in different clothing.
Here we go again. People don’t understand the UK!
Yes it is a state-funded school. No there isn’t enough money to pay otherwise, if there was teachers would get paid on time in all the non state-funded schools (they don’t).
It makes no difference who funds it, any school legally has to register and is then subject to government regulation. Totally IRRELEVANT if state-funded or private.
Schools in the UK are all inspected by the government regardless if they receive funding or not, there was no reason to mention this is a state funded school as it is entirely irrelevant. This particular school has a moser that loves making trouble, when I sat my science examinations we had an inspector by every single paper following a report that the school blocked out some of the questions.
As an aside, the rule mentioned here is for parents to keep to and is on the school application pack. And why it is newsworthy G-d knows, so they’ll just change the wording of it, the content wasn’t the issue, just the vagueness. Bored people with nothing better to do then file stupid complaints.
This is why in the US, we must find ways to fund our schools without public funds. Gov’ts will use these public funds as a ‘hook’ to force anti-Torah dictats onto our children.
That’s fine. They can just list all the bright colors, if it makes them happy. Just a waste of paper…
Vague rules that are open to interpretation leave room for girls who are already viewed a certain way to be targeted. Rules that are more specific bring clarity and fairness, and minimize resentment caused by subjective and inconsistent interpretation and enforcement.
However, being right this time doesn’t make it any less alarming that the government is involved to this level.
Good! We should be putting a little more thought into what we push on our children and ourselves! Yes I think it’s terrible the government did this but I agree it is very vague to just say no bright colors and these vague rules sometimes lead to children getting confused and eventually resentful, if you disagree open your eyes.
Stop talking money from the government there’s enough money out there by the Yidden to fund the school.
Ever hear of the Golden Rule?. It’s “he who provides the gold rules”. As the provider of the money, the government can dictate the rules (even stupid ones) one needs to follow as a condition of getting the money.
Girls schools in England are not yeshivas. We send boys to yeshiva
Why don’t simply issue a specific uniform?
Yeah you got that correct they wrote it with wiggle room
This is the result of lunatic progressives. Soon these weirdos will come to New York and tell Jews not to wear black hats as the color is too conservative. Will just switch to golden beketchas and white yarmulkas like the Reb Arlich wear.
Liberal bums
This is just the first step. The bad guys on top want to rid any reminder of HASHEM so they will not rest until the yeshiva kids look like the public school kids. We must fight this tooth and nail.
I guess Yaacov Ovinu would not have been able to get his son Yosef Ha’Tzaddik into that school with his כתונת פסים.
I agree with the Brits. Kids are traumatized at an early age by shleppers that decided children have to dress like monkeys.
Since tzinus (according to our Gedolim) is THE major cause of ALL our problems (Covid-19, the sidduch crisis, the draft of Yeshiva students, the tuition crisis, kashrus reform in EY, the housing crisis, sexual abuse by “Torah” figures) that should be our Number One priority in the English schools. Stop taking money from the government and let’s make our own rules!