While traditional Haredi and Hasidic yeshivas are only for boys, with girls attending Beis Yaakov schools, they do not encourage their students to plan for college education and professional careers.
On the other hand, Modern Orthodox day schools are often coeducational and stress the secular component of the curriculum, as many parents wish to have their children educated at a high enough level to be admitted to college and university in order to train for a profession.
One of the largest day schools in the world is the King David School system in Johannesburg, South Africa that educated thousands of Jewish students, stressing the teaching of Hebrew language and Zionism, since the majority of students and the teachers are not fully religiously observant.
In many Jewish day schools, students are taught to read, speak, and understand the Hebrew language.
This is challenging for many students, since Hebrew uses different letters and a different script than English, French, and other languages that use the Latin alphabet.
[7] After The Holocaust and the aftermath of World War II, the interest in Jewish day schools increased dramatically.