The government is keen to regulate private Islamic schools,but what approximately London’s yeshivas – the devout schools for boys, many of which are unregistered?On a warm afternoon on a recent visit at the heart of London’s Hassidic Jewish community, or fathers with people-carriers are collecting their children from pre-schools and primary schools. puny groups of teenage girls link arms in the sunshine and chatter together in Yiddish as they walk home from the Yesodey Hatorah voluntary-aided secondary school in Stamford Hill.
Strikingly,though – in a community where large families are the norm – there are no teenage boys on the streets today. Nor are there any registered secondary schools – independent or state – for Jewish boys in this area.
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Source: theguardian.com