When I drop my kids off at their Jewish day school, Iâ??ll occasionally look around at many of the other dads dropping off their kids and notice a certain kind of distant stare on their faces; one can almost see the gears turning in their minds in a kind of wonderment as to what exactly it is weâ??re doing there. Even setting aside the massive costs of private-school tuition, for those of us who grew up attending Jewish day schools and didnâ??t have a great experience, weâ??re asking ourselves what it is thatâ??s driving us to send our kids here; for those who grew up without that experience, there are worries about what their kids are missing out on and whether the experience might be too isolating.
Why we make the religious decisions we do is terrain familiar to scads of psychologists, sociologists, and clergy. It has only in recent decades come to scrutinized by economists.
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