The recent growth of Jewish day schools in the United States and United Kingdom has consistently been attributed to the declining appeal of public education among minority groups in general and the Jewish community in particular. In this article I review the interpretative heuristic that lies behind this claim, and ask whether this heuristic accounts for day-school growth in Toronto. I examine previously unpublished school enrollment data and conclude that Jewish families are neither in flight from the Toronto public school system nor are they heading in increasing numbers to day schools. I suggest, therefore, that the prevailing cross-cultural paradigm for day-school growth needs reassessing in a Canadian context and perhaps beyond. (Contains 6 notes.) [Published in September 2004.]