While legally required to offer a public -
school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some
schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that
more than a
few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything
more than basic math,
grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.