UPDATE: Dear Parents,
I want to take a moment to clarify something very important. There has been talk that (xxxxxxx) is closing. This is not the case.
(xxxxxxx) is a great school, and we are ready and eager to continue and to open for the coming school year. However, we are currently facing a serious financial shortfall — teachers are still owed salaries and rent must be brought up to date. Until this help comes through, we cannot move forward. Therefore, as of now, we dont have an opening date yet.
A large part of the shortfall comes from outstanding balances that have not yet been paid the last year or two. If these outstanding balances were brought up to date, the school would not be facing this challenge.
As soon as we receive the financial support we need, we will be able to open our doors and continue giving our students the chinuch they so deserve. This is a school that must continue, and together we can make that happen.
Thank you,
Looking forward to another wonderful year iyh,
Not cool. This should not be happening 2 days before school starts….
And the onus should NOT be on the parents that are choking out whatever tuition they already can’t afford!!
Please…. will the people of means in this town stand up now and pour their maaser into our local institutions so they can run! For every dollar we give to outside places and parties including EY we should be pouring in a hundred more to our local schools.
I repeat. This is NOT ok.
Obviously your the guy without the money and very nicely asking people with the money to give money. Off the school didn’t have money then where were they before the summer what happened a day before that you ran out of money? Either you were out of cash earlier and didn’t let the people of the school know which is a a disaster on your half . Or you like making a campaign off crisis tactics so you only say it last minute but either way whoever is running the school should step down because they have no clue what they are doing.
Or they were trying very hard to raise the money.
It’s very easy to give away money (especially when it’s somebody elses).
The Frum community raised around $200,000,000 for yeshivos in EY in the last 2 years (not accounting for money that wasn’t directly donated through these campaigns) Maybe some of that should be directed to local institutions first…
How does such an idiotic comment have so many likes yes the onus should be on the parents to pay the tuition they owe
yes its pretty sad! i remember when i was a kid the rabbeim went on strike for a few months because they werent getting paid… we learnt in the local shuls around town (was pretty fun for the kids but noone else)
Yeah, this happened when I was going into 4th grade, it really was fun as a kid. But it must have been a nightmare for everyone else. Kudos to R’ Shloimy Fried, who as a Rebbi, continued a learning group EVERY DAY until the school started again. He stuck his neck out for us.
we.need to send more money to Israel and ower community suffering
Lol school is useless we lived through the pandemic
sorry But not buyin this letter!
read it again and u will see that it does not add up, at one point it’s addressing the parents, second paragraph it’s addressing someone else….
stam hock!
It’s out of hand the situation in lakewood my son is going into 3rd grade hid yeshiva wants $900 a month tuition, thats ontop of all my other kids tuition the system is so broke our gedoilim close their eyes everyone blinds themselves something must be done! We need to pool $10 million from the wealthy that can bring down the tuition costs tremendously… if we send so much to eretz Yisrael we can do this!
Wat school
Just wait here while I go to Trenton to get some money, don’t get in to trouble and try not to get curious
The school that saves money on toner by not printing letters that are silent.
I feel sorry for everyone in this situation the school, the kids, the teachers
god runs the world and god decided this should happen! What message is god trying to tell us?
That we should spend money on designer clothing for our kids and take them on vacations so we can’t pay our tuitions.
I don’t claim to be a prophet but if history repeats itself the message is to get rid of smartphones & long Sheitels.
??????? Explain the connection
do you know what school it is ?
mqybe it’s in trailers
Wake up and smell the coffee. The system is broken in all too many ways. This is likely to continue unless financial, interpersonal, and other aspects of our lives are overhauled.
It’s the same story every year. The same thread went around last year…. Those with self entitlment who can’t afford tuition (or can but decide to live lavishly instead) will always place blame on the school, saying it’s too expensive, and they need to do a better job fundraising. Those with a lick of common sense, or those understanding that no one owes you, will argue the flip side, that the parents gotta do more to meet their commitments…. i.e. fundraising, hustle more jobs, help out the school with its dinner etc…..
In regards to it happening right before school is set to begin. It can very likely be because parents were unable, or unwilling to come to the table and settle it earlier. Therefore the only tactic the school has to ensure it’s employees get paid, is to threaten the parents.
Good luck to all.
P.s. are these the same 2 schools who threatened not to open last year as well?
Its time to stop the school business! Its time to homeschooling! Time for pods! The system isn’t set up for boys or girls but robots & atmosphere machines… this has grown tremendously in the outside world maybe its time to normalize it in the frum world
yes, and grow our own wheat and our own bodek lettuce and prewash our own celery, and sheitels, and whatever else we put in soup!
its time to toast our own breakfast, bun our own burgers, and take our chicken back from Mike! We need to stop being “Chal” so we can have shteller, and flip our smartphones out! We need stop the pamphlets from talking in Shul, and stop SINGLing out crises, and getting bugged by water and ….
If this is true, very sad. For all involved.
We need to have empathy. Having said that, has this letter been verified? Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It’s a letter to the parents but then it says so can update the parents. It’s such an unclear letter. If the decision makers are writing such letters, perhaps a glimpse into the leadership being not clear or decisive.
I agree that any money raised for Yeshivos should be spent here 1st, not sent to EY. How did the wealthy come up with $65 million to send to Israel and let the Yeshivos here suffer…. your own family, your own city comes 1st with Tzedaka. Someone needs to answer that important question!
There’s a very simple solution here. Just like in the old days of the shtetl, where the town had a special tax they put on all meat that would help pay for the Ravs salary, we should do the same. There should be a special “chinuch tax” on every single charcuterie meat board and cured fish board being sold in Lakewood, toms River, Jackson, Howell and all the other neighborhoods. The proceeds can go to help fund these yeshivas and schools, which are clearly not the priority of many people…
Why because you choose to send your kids to private schools ?? Everyone else should pay a meat tax 😆
No, he isnt saying everyone should. But these private schools are really community schools for a large part of the community. And There are Kosher eateries that are specifically servicing this same community, so the idea is, any luxury item should have a tax which goes for communal necessities. Actually a very bright Idea.
If my memory serves me correct this year over 800 million dollars was sent to the keren yeshivos in eretz yisroel. Maybe we should revisit our priorities and keep some of our tzedokoh here??
Doesn’t seem like your memory is serving you correct(ly) for one thing, you posted the same comment twice and as far as the dollar amount, it was nowhere near that amount, way less that that amount but still an impressive amount..
Whatever it was it was too much if we can’t take care of our iwn here
Agreed!
If my memory serves me correct the keren hayeshivas for Eretz Hisroel raised over 800 million dollars. If our mosdos can’t stay open maybe we should be rethinking our priorities??
800 million LOL maybe 100 milion and pledged
Bad memory
To all those saying we should support our own before abroad. If you look and pay attention, its almost always the girls schools that have this issue. The reason being, there is more of a chiyuv to support Talmud Torah when it comes to boys/men. You might have a point. However there’s more willingness to support boys schools etc…..
That’s a really idiotic thing, because without the girls the boys won’t have who to marry. This is why Sara Schenirer started the Bais Yaakov movement in the first place.
Let me clarify. 1. I’m not saying you shouldn’t support girls schools, I was just saying what halacha implies and therefore the reason the issue generally occurs in the girls schools. (The exact reason sara schenirer started the bais yaskov movement. I.e. brcause there were only boys yeshivos/chaderim)2. You’re response to that’s idiotic, I’ll give you a chance to respond, but it seems you’re saying halacha is idiotic, as that’s where it says that there’s a chiyuv in teaching boys, and not the same chiyuv when it comes to girls. And 3. (Though this may truly be idiotic) if less girls were receiving a frum education, yes less girls would want to marry a learning guy, and hey some might not stay frum. But that would solve the shidduch crisis wouldn’t it?
P.s. I wasn’t saying not to support girls schools. It was just a observation as to why it’s generally girls schools which are struggling.
Sorry I wasn’t trying to say that Halacha was idiotic c”v that was not what I meant at all.
the idiotic part was on the fact that people will support a boys school faster than a girls school instead of giving preference to both. The girls schools nowadays are extremely important because the girls are the ones who are going to be the akeres habayis. If they don’t have the right hashkafa and hadracha (many of whom do not receive this at home, unfortunately) then that’s a disaster waiting to happen.
i think the reason the girls schools tend to suffer more is because new ones keep opening up every year. We don’t hear about a new Chester opening every year like with girls schools and high schools. I think that has to do with the problem.
i doubt the shidduch crisis will get solved by less girls wanting to marry a learning boy. If there were less frum girls available for marriage, that might force the boys to marry the first girl they go out with because they’ll realize that they’re lucky enough to find a frum girl altogether. Then all the stupidities of age, background, if she’s blonde hair and blue eyes or red hair and green eyes etc. wouldn’t matter, because they’ll just be so grateful that they found a girl who keeps Shabbos, dresses modestly, will cover her hair, keeps kosher and will keep Taharas hamishpacha that they’ll feel like the luckiest person on earth.
But then again, that might not actually happen even in this hypothetical case. They might just take a girl who’s less frum and try and make her more frum instead.
so after all is said and done, only Hashem can bring each person their zivug and He has a timeline for every person. If someone really wants to get married, Hashem won’t withhold from them the right one.
I wish you were right
I work in a school and some people simply don’t pay tuition or near thr normal amount, and then make simchos in over the top places. For shame!
There are some that didn’t pay because they lost jobs. Its not fair to label everyone with the same brush. Some schools live dollar to dollar. If u speak to tomchei shabbos they will tell you there are countless new type of families. Theses were balabatish people that paid full tution plus. Let us support those in need without criticism.