They're taking the biblical imperative more literally than ever and educating their children at home. Once the bastion of fundamentalist Christians, home schooling is attracting a growing number of Jews, many of them in the Bay Area. Among them are Shoshana and Abe Socher of Berkeley. We learn every day. For example, building a sukkah becomes an exercise in math and carpentry skills, Socher said.
Everyday life provides subject matter for schooling.
They say meeting merchants, police officers and postal carriers during their workday replaces an average second-grade curriculum unit dealing with service workers who aid their communities. This fall marked the beginning of the Sochers' second year of home schooling. The system is getting high marks in their household. My children are spending most of their waking hours learning. Educators are sympathetic to the tough schooling choices facing parents in 1995.