Ateres Esther is set to close its doors and not reopen this coming school year, according to the latest developments.
As earlier reported, an emergency meeting was held last night to try and save the school, and at the same time announced a new Rosh Mosad.
Following that meeting, a meeting was held with Baalei Batim and a Rosh Yeshiva.
“That meeting went sour,” one of the Askonim told TLS.
The school was opened six years ago by Reb Moshe Chaim Burstyn and his wife.
“Reb Moshe Chaim Burstyn and his wife opened the school and ran it with Mesiras Nefesh – it was a shining light in Lakewood,” the Askan said.
An emergency campaign to try and save the school only raised about $4,000.
There were approximately 90 children in the school.
So what happens with the donations people made to help the school? Does it get returned to the people who made the donations?
Hope everyone gets into a school. Maybe they should apply to Ateres Tzippora we learnt from their story that they are open to accepting all kinds of girls without turning anyone away
and my daughter is still not accepted into a high school…
You mentioned That Ateres Tziporah takes in all lined of kids it’s not true I have a friend that Applied and they told her no and her kids are still not in a school so think before you talk
I know first hand – the only kids they have turned down as of this year are kids whos families are litterally not frum aka they wear no headcovering and are not shomer basic torah and mitzvahos. In the past things may have been diffrent but thats how it is now at AT
The system needs to be fixed. This is not working. Either people cannot get into schools or schools are closing down.
There has to be a better way.
#4) that’s not really what happened here, this school was set up specifically for a niche clientele and with very low tuition costs, that even if full, would have found it difficult to pay their bills.
The fact that the school was not close to being full, clearly shows the niche clientele it hoped to serve, did not exist, or in the very least, did not choose to send their children their.
That is likely the reason that it was decided not to save the school. Why bail out and spend a fortune, on a school that is not financially viable, for a student body that has other options
How is bnos melech absorbing 90 (!!) Girls!!!
We need more schools in lakewood! Schools are overcrowding and are just turning ppl down bec they have no space.
B’nos Melech Rules !!
Invest in our kids or invest in our kollels. If the 10 thousand men in BMG would go and work that would mean a lot more of our charity money would be available for our yeshiva elementary schools, as well as their earnings going to pay their children’s tuition.
I am not against Kollel (for the right person) but I’m definitely for the chinuch and education of our children, it most certainly takes precedents.
just one mans opinion
With all due respect your opinion is not a very good one.
With your logic, why not just ask those “10 thousand men” you speak of to move out of town and then we won’t have the school issue at all? Most are here because of BMG and let’s be real here, without BMG there is no Lakewood.
As a working person, I want those “10 thousand men” to stay and learn forever. It’s what makes this wonderful town and the reason I call it a pleasure to be here.
Question for you… why do YOU even live in Lakewood? There’s no way you can answer that question honestly without stating the only reason you ended up here (one way or another) is because BMG is in this town.
Why should they move out of town that would be ridiculous.I’m sure they are all wonderful people that add to the greatness of the Lakewood community.Not just their ability to learn Gamara.
If our charity money can support all those men great, If not it should be going to our children’s Chinuch. clearly their is lack of funds to open more schools.
Their are many sources in the Torah that give an obligation to be mechanich our kids. Kollel on the other hand has no source or obligation, and in many cases might be contrary to the Torah.
Its a mans obligation to support his wife according to the Torah for one
Eli, somehow I get the feeling that none of your money is supporting the people learning in Kollel. And if not for those people learning in Lakewood, this community would not exist. Most of the people working in Lakewood, at some point in their lives, learned in Kolel
Why wouldn’t Ateres Tzipora accept a girl whose mother doesn’t cover her hair?? Are we going to not let a Yiddish neshama have a yiddisher education?
Sounds like it’s not an open door policy… they just have different guidelines…
#12 by the way the family that got turn down the mother covers her here so that is not true and by the way they took in a family that the mother does not cover her here and the parents are not together so what you are hearing is not true
Hair! Not here! Ugh sorry I had to
90 students in six grades is only about 15 girls per class. It’s not financially viable to keep opening schools for such a small student body and makes sense that the decision was made to absorb the school into a bigger one.
Neither here nor their!
Eli,
Working people have less money than Kollel people. Forsure when starting out and they lose support and benefits