Learn your lesson

Some of the toniest private schools in New York, places that deliver an exemplary secular education to their kids, are going to war against new state regulations arm in arm with a small subset of ultra-Orthodox yeshivas that are failing to teach their kids English, math, science and other core subjects. For shame.

Back in May, the state Education Department issued new proposed rules to ensure that non-public schools live up to the legal obligation to deliver a “substantially equivalent” education to their students. That’s long been the guarantee under law; where the rubber meets the reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, there’s been virtually no enforcement.

And for years, a small sliver of religious schools in the Hasidic community — not all Jewish schools by any stretch, and not all

Hasidic ones either — have been neglecting to teach kids the basics, despite pocketing millions in public money.

This must end. The only way to make it end is to step up state oversight, which means starting periodic and unobtrusive visits to all non-public schools. It’s just not constitutional for the state to single out Jewish K-12 institutions for scrutiny .

The likes of Trinity and Dalton and Collegiate have nothing to worry about. They are going to coast through any and all inspections. Yes, they’re already accredited by a top private organization; so what’s a little scrutiny from taxpayer-funded educrats?

Just as Le Bernardin must be subjected to Health Department inspections in order to reduce the likelihood of food poisoning at a corner diner, every school must accept a small measure of oversight so that no child falls through the cracks.