From an article by an administrator in a Modern Orthodox school on the West Coast.
"At a recent retreat with fellow Jewish communal leaders, I decided to raise an issue that was probably on all of our minds but hadn’t been discussed.
The retreat, held at the Orthodox Union, included heads of major Jewish day schools, shul rabbis and couples who work on college campuses. Much of our discussion was about the challenges Jewish young people face on campus and how to better engage and inspire them. The reality is that many of our high school students are acting like college students when it comes to sexual activity, party culture and challenges with Shabbat and kashrut observance. I wondered why we aren’t dealing with that fact on the high school level."
Absolutely right. But instead of "dealing with it" by having "conversations" about it, it should be dealt with by the entire Orthodox community as a whole making it unacceptable to attend such schools. They poison mind and soul. It is assur as assur can be to go to these places and the presence of a Hillel Rabbi or even a Chabad couple don't give it a hechsher. We all know many victims...
