This is the fourth article in a series about dormitory education. The previous article discussed Yeshiva dormitories.

Are some children asked to live in a dormitory setting before they are ready to leave home?

Under usual circumstances, parents raise children for the first two decades of their lives. The children leave home to serve in the military, and/or they get married and have children. At that time, they live on their own, without their original family. They are welcome to return to their parents for a visit, where they are often treated as guests.

Thus, children have less than two decades to become acculturated and acclimated to their family. During their formative years they learn to follow family trditions.

Yet, before serious and advanced learning about family procedures takes place, some children are sent away to study in an educational institution. They learn the Yeshiva way of doing things, but lose the potential direction from their family.

Thus, family tradition is replaced by the direction of the educational institution.

Strangely, parents don't fight this travesty.

The next article in the series demonstrates some issues that dormitory education may create with family traditions.