YALP-by-Request

[gnomi]

YALP-ing on behalf of a friends list denizen:


[Poll #1057850]

Comments

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

i answered "hebrew school" even though i didn't learn hebrew, because all my jewish classmates went to "hebrew school" every thursday in 6th grade. so i figured that's what you were trying to get at.

my equivalent would have been "greek school," but i didn't attend that either because that was on weekends and my dad didn't see the need.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

In my area, there's at least one prominent example of what I think of as a "private school" that calls itself a "day school". I never thought about the distinction before, but I can see the kind catering to the children of the elite (as opposed to religious schools, which are also "private schools" in my head) wanting or needing to make the distinction as to whether or not the school in question involved boarding.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

It may be both a private school, a public school, and a day school, depending on company and what element of it's provision I wished to stress... (Day school would *only* be used in the context of a conversation where other people were attending boarding school, and it was important to explain that you/they were not boarder, no day-pupils at a boarding school.)

[morgan-lowri.livejournal.com]

And my Jewish friends went to Schul (sp?) on Wednesday afternoons.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

I've only heard the term day school in connection with Jewish religious institutions, otherwise the term I use is private schools.

[sethg]

Ditto.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

It's private school if you board, day school if you don't.

Also: there's no "All the Hebrew I learned I learned from Nomi" ticky box, and there should be one.

[gingicat]

I tend to think of Day School as specifically referring to full-time Hebrew school, as opposed to going to Hebrew school two afternoons and Sunday morning every week. (I did both at different times.)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

All schools that are not part of the public school system are "private." (There are public schools that accept out-of-catchment students with tuition - my first high school in New Jersey did, for example. On the other hand, homeschools are private but do not necessarily charge tuition.)

Day School seems to have two different definitions: private/non-boarding school or Jewish religious school that offers full-day instruction in both religious and secular studies, as opposed to Hebrew schools/Talmud Torahs, which offer only part-time instruction and only in religious studies.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I learned Hebrew as an adult, from a book. "First Hebrew Primer for Adults."

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Qualifiers:

Private school unless one is in England
Maritime Canada answered, as that's where I've lived for the majority of my life, however my English was consistently modified and corrected by my mother, from Ontario (thus Upper Canada or Eastern Canada).

I have yet to learn Hebrew, and while it's a hope it's not yet an actual goal.

And finally, Eastern Maritime Canada is not New England, but we our weather seems to be just as temperamental.

:D

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

'Private school' works in England as well; 'public school' a subcategory of 'private school'. 'Independent school' is pretty much the same as 'private school' but more modern. I think.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Ah, english. One language, so many ways to confuse us.

;-)

[byrne.livejournal.com]

And I have never heard the term 'day school' before in my life.

[dpolicar]

I recognize "Hebrew school" but am more inclined to say that I learned Hebrew at a Yeshiva.

[kmelion.livejournal.com]

Yep, I agree. I went to a girl's Yeshivah... I clicked 'Elsewhere'

[betra.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.. I learned Hebrew in Hebrew School, Tues, Thurs and Sun. The only time I have EVER heard of a Day School is the one here in Princeton, appropriately called, Princeton Day School.

The people I know who went to PDS did not board. They lived at home, and I don't think they have a boarding school there. And it is absolutely NOT affiliated to any Jewish Center or Yeshiva or anything else. In fact I think it might be Episcopalian if anything at all.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

"Day school" is specifically Jewish. "Parochial school" is specifically Catholic. All other pay-to-learn pre-college schools are "private schools."

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

"Day school" is specifically Jewish.

not necessarily. i attended an episcopal day school for kindergarten/first grade. and i'm not even episcopalian! (don't ask me how that worked, i was kinda young at the time)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ACtually, in the UK we call them "Public Schools" but you didn't have that option.

And it's Autumn. Narf!

[beckyfeld.livejournal.com]

Private School / Day School: Yeshivot sometimes call themselves Day Schools or some such but most other parochial schools I've seen do not. Private Schools is probably the better choice, but the term itself is not specific for non-residential schools.

Learned Hebrew: should have been a ticky box - I was _taught_ Hebrew in Day School but actually _learned_ Hebrew in Israel.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

I went to a Catholic Day school for middle school, and it was old enough that the Day in the name just meant private and non-boarding. I tend to use "private school" more than day school in conversation, though.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

In our world, day school referred to the kids who went to yeshiva or Jewish school. Private school meant you went to snooty private school.
I love this weather! If it could be like this all year around I'd be the happiest girl in the world!!

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

Second question shoulda had checkboxes, methinks.

Lurve the weather!

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

The three different schools where I learned Hebrew (grades 1-3, rest of 3, and 4-8) were all called Hebrew Day Schools; I also heard them referred to as private schools since they weren't publically funded. None of them referred to themselves as a yeshiva, so I don't know what it is that defines that. In all of them, we'd spend half the day doing Hebrew and Jewish subjects, and the other half on standard stuff (English, Math, Science, etc.) The only really good one for learning Hebrew was the first one, in which we were only supposed to speak Hebrew during that half-day, and where our Hebrew teachers pretended to not understand English. After two years there, we went on a trip to Israel and I was completely fluent (for a 7-year-old), and able to converse freely with my cousins.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I learned Hebrew as an adult. I got tutoring for a year, and took Hebrew at college, and went to services. It's not conversational Hebrew, but I'm somewhat functional, at least. I can't be the only Jew on your flist who wasn't raised with Hebrew!

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

When it snows here in the Boston area, and WBZ is doing their school closing announcements, I often hear "Beaver Country Day School" mentioned. As far as I can tell, it's not a Jewish school at all. Googling "Day School" doesn't appear to give any Jewish hits at all on the first page, but does return a number of private schools.