The instructors were always Christians, the teaching was Christian, and the regulations of the schoolroom, as to hours, costume, and manners, were often in opposition to Jewish practices.

The public school interrupted the boy's sacred studies in the Hebrew school.

Where would you look for pious Jews, after a few generations of boys brought up by Christian teachers?
Plainly the Czar was after the souls of the Jewish children.

The church door gaped for them at the end of the school course.

And all good Jews rose up against the schools, and by every means, fair or foul, kept their boys away.