The debate about the seminary year continues to draw passionate feedback from our readers
A recent Inbox letter decried the fact that top students get into “top” seminaries more easily than their “erlich and wonderful” counterparts who are simply more academically challenged. As someone who has always been an honors student, I can tell you that it takes a lot of hard work to get straight As, and the fact that a student is successful doesn’t mean that school is a breeze for her. Even if a girl doesn’t need to study or work hard in the traditional sense, there are plenty of other ways to work hard.
For instance, it’s very hard to show up to classes where you understood the material the first time, and the teacher repeats that material for the next 50 minutes. Imagine working a job like that upward of eight hours, five days a week, for 12 years. That’s hard. But us straight-A girls who “aren’t working hard,” because school is “easy for us,” do it anyway.
We’re told that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel — the magical place called “seminary.” So long as we stick it out and get good grades instead of not showing up to school or spacing out or sleeping in class, we can get into the seminary of our choice, and finally learn at our level.
For some reason, though, there are people who believe we don’t deserve that. They say that because we “didn’t work hard,” we don’t deserve to be taught at our level. Therefore, the girls who get Bs should be accepted into seminary instead of us.
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