Plus ça change, plus c'est la même
This post here pretty much sums up the state of chabad education for women. Of course, the comments are the best part. Some are just amusing, others are depressing or just scary.
On College:
#35 but i went to seminary in israel, and i had a good time but the best part of it is the credits i got for collage. in this day and age collage is very important. touro is a great program for people who dont want to go to mixed schools. its a great atmosphere and if you go to beis rivkia half day and collage in the evening you will have your BA in no time!
On the Rampant Immorality of Post- Seminary Girls:
# 118: The girls in my grade that went to Chitrik, and Yerushalayim, those are the girls that are today, prancing down Kingston avenue in their Tichuls, and no socks/stockings.
On the System:
#52 we listened to the rebbe we had the children and now we suffer (it hurts me to write this) but lubavitch out grew the structure that is in place we dont have enogh schools enough camps enough mesiftas enough zals and therfore our children dont have places to go to learn to camp and they get tossed out like the garbage .....
On Who Runs the World:
#94: ...your last words were so outrageous I can't even re-type them. There is a G-d in this world; there is a Rebbe who can read what you write.
#153... The Rebbe takes care of each of us and makes sure we have whatever we need. My friend, who's parents are shluchim, was asked how her parents planned to pay for seminary (when she went for her interview). Her answers rings true on so many levels.
"We grew up on shlichus with the understanding that the Rebbe makes sure we have what we need. If I am supposed to attend your seminary The Rebbe will find a way of getting us the money, and if we don't have the money for it, I guess it means I'm not supposed to go" (She did get accepted and attended that particular seminary)
The seminaries these girls are fighting to attend are nothing unique or special. Here are some examples of classes at the top-notch school. It's the same little cute divrei torah and superficial questions and total absence of serious independent learning that I was privileged to experience in New York.
Maybe it's like this at all seminaries, not just chabad ones, I don't know. But there's no way these graduates can be expected to answer serious, difficult theological questions and engage in complex text-based debate. They are just like I was, spitting back little sound bites and not really thinking about the contradictions.
On the other hand, I was impressed that the concept of college made it in to the comments. Even though it was shot down and ridiculed later on, it still made it in and that's already a sign of change.