Nearly all girls going into elementary and high school this year in Lakewood have been placed in a school, Askonim tell TLS.
For the last several months, and particularly through the summer season, Askonim have been working around the clock to ensure each girl has a school so that schools can open on time and not leave any child behind.
“We’ve seen a tremendous Achdus between schools this year,” one of the Askonim working on the placement told TLS.
As of today, there were approximately 10 elementary and 10 high school girls who were not yet placed, but Askonim say they are hopeful to have them all placed by this week.
I remember 5 years ago when there was a similar post and I had two daughters not in school.
I’m really happy that most girls are in school but for the 20+ that aren’t this article just makes it even more difficult.
Although this is positive news, please save the announcement for when they are ALL placed.
I believe this article is misleading and promoting a air of complacency. Not to belittle or refute the claims made here, just don’t want this to slow the efforts. The efforts shouldn’t fall on the askanim alone. Like the age old adage “if you see something say something”. When we add achdus as a tzibur nothing can stand in our way.
Side note: the Hebrew word (צִבּוּר) stands for tzadikim, benonim, and reshaim.
Which askonim do you call for placement? Please send me the info.
If every girl single isn’t placed there’s no reason to be happy. There are 20 girls their parents, siblings and extended family in agony. Not just today but for months. No reason to be happy.
Almost all????
ridiculous, where are the 100 rabonim that signed a letter about hatzulas nefashos????????????
I believe that most of those 100 Rabbanim are on the phone right now as we speak trying to do their max in helping those 20 girls. I am a very positive thinker.
These Rabbanim they don’t own or manage any schools.
They can call the administrator, but at the end of the day, they can’t force their opinion.
FAKE NEWS!!!
I am aware of multiple girls still waiting to get placed in school.
And am not aware of anyone that really seems to care.
A tremendous amount of work has been done on the part of many to find a school for everyone in high school. But until everyone is settled, this article is a stab in the back to those who are not yet placed. With men it’s a privilege to be among the 10 to make a minyan. But with high school girls if you’re one of the 10 it’s devastating beyond. Please remove this article
What about primary? What about the Boys? Ultimately it’s destructive that this always waits until labor day. This should be resolved Pesach time. However, Askanim and the schools wait for the last minute to start.
We have a bigger problem, several school in Lakewood are not opening yet because of financial problems
Every school should have a board and financial transparency that the money is allocated correctly. Fundraising for girl schools is as important as boys schools.
Why is that a problem most of use can’t afford the tuition anyways so let all the schools close down. Why should a system that 70% of us can’t afford anyways continue surviving let them all collapse and let’s come up with a more affordable option to educate our children. There is no reason we men should commit financial suicide on a daily basis!.
As of yesterday, multiple schools still had 50-70 admission cards waiting for parents to come settle their tuition balance. The problem is widespread but individuals are too embarrassed to discuss it as they think they’re alone in that situation.
I’m not blaming the schools who are also in a big deficit and have a hard time meeting payroll, and are still trying to work with the parents. I’m just saying there’s a real crisis brewing for the middle-class and we need to come together and address it.
Exactly and remember that In our community even if you make 250k which would palce you in the top 10% earners but in our community you can barely survive with 250k. This has been a crisis for a long time and will get worse now due to the economy and inflation .
don’t be selfish! at least the yeshivos in E”Y got their funding from Lakewood!
And Deal and New York and Mr. Rechnitz
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Nearly all? Is this some kind of a sick joke? How many are left without schools? Try being honest and posting real numbers.
Since when is almost good enough for anything?
SINCE WHEN IS “ALMOST” GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE A WHOLE POST ABOUT IT?!
sorry if anyone was expecting applause…
This information is inaccurate. There are plenty more kids that are not in school. Who are these Askonim that we can speak to so perhaps they can help more kids get into schools as school does start this week.
I know someone in my Shull that needs to get in 2 of his boys into school and is unfortunately not getting any real movement with any schools so this is a real problem and our school system is completely broken and most of us can’t afford the tuition anyways so I am davening that this whole system should collapse so we can start all over again to try to come up with a system that most of us can afford. Most men I am talking to in Shull are complaining that they can’t afford the tuition.
Can we have the number of the askonim so that they can help me please?
One girl not placed is one too many.
Another click bait article by the scoop. Are you going to apologize to the families and girls that aren’t in school???? Very hurtful
avi wasnt my tuition supposed to go down
Avi says no.
Maybe together we can use our free time and say Tehillim for the hostages that are still alive and they are still going through mind boggling torture as we speak.
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Every child is a world. This is misleading. To make it sound like our problems are over. Every year lakewood community goes through the same torture. Our children deserve better. They are the future of klal yisroel.
From someone who’s family has been through this, the child being a straight alef student and brought in a home enriched with torah values. The agony is unbearable. Our community’s school admission process isn’t just flawed—it’s a cruel, heartless machine that crushes the hopes and dreams of innocent children and their devoted parents. “Almost All” are hollow words that mock the sleepless nights, the tears, and the sheer desperation of families who’ve done everything right, only to be left behind.
I’ve seen it firsthand—the raw anguish in a mother’s eyes as she watches her neighbors celebrate while her own child remains in limbo. The gut-wrenching pain of a father, helplessly watching his child’s self-esteem crumble as rejection after rejection pours in. They followed every rule, jumped through every hoop, yet here they are—begging, pleading with askanim for help, while schools coldly turn their backs on them.
The hypocrisy is sickening.
These institutions, supposedly enriched of Torah values, engage in a twisted game of favorites, leaving shattered families in their wake. How dare they send out acceptance letters when even one child is left without a school? The principals and administrators, with their rehearsed sympathetic smiles and empty promises, are nothing but actors in a cruel farce.
This isn’t just a broken system—it’s a decease in our community, breeding sinas chinam and tearing apart the very fabric of our kehillah. The lies, the favoritism, the utter lack of compassion—it’s a chilul Hashem of the highest order.
My heart breaks for every child left wondering why they’re not “good enough,” for every parent forced to put on a brave face while dying inside. This man-made tragedy, perpetuated by those who claim to be our leaders, is an affront to everything we stand for as Jews.
The audacity to celebrate “placements”placement means they were placed not given a choice, not being put in the schools that they actually applied to but forced to accept any school and be placed. While the last few families are still drowning in uncertainty and fear is beyond comprehension. This isn’t a problem for Hashem alone to solve—it’s a shameful, human-created disaster that demands immediate action from those who’ve appointed themselves as the gatekeepers of our precious children’s futures. The Achdus your referring to is comical to me, I have seen nothing but.
The time for change is now. No more excuses, no more games. Every child deserves a place, and no acceptance letters should go out until every single one of our precious neshamos has a school to call home. Anything less is a betrayal of our values and a stain on our community.
Maybe together we can use our free time and say Tehillim for the hostages that are still alive and they are still going through mind boggling torture as we speak.
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That comment was for Shmendrik not for you.
Sorry that my phone got botched up.
Hashem should help your family and also the families of all those precious children that are still waiting to get accepted, Hashem should help of you and make sure that they all get accepted ASAP.
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Can we talk for a minute about the teachers who are mutinying over class sizes?
We may have things to a point where nearly every girl is in school, but will we have schools for the girls?!
We have a shortage of schools and the animus from the populace only serves to discourage new schools from opening.
Sorry but my daughter is still not in school. Please don’t write this until ALL OF THE GIRLS ARE IN SCHOOL.
Neither is mine. But it’s ok she is finally beginning to accept the idea that she’s just not good enough…
Please realize that this doesn’t reflect badly at you it reflects badly at us as a community that have allowed such a dysfunctional system to continue for so long additionally this is a system that most of us cant afford so it might as well collapse in my opinion.
My daughter also isn’t in school yet. I find it hard to believe that only 20 are not placed. Seems like a lot more.
My daughter went to a great elementary and still has no clue where she’s going for school. Her principal’s are really trying. Sh was doing great all summer but is really starting to feel like garbage.
There are approximately 100 girls who are meant to be starting their 3rd year of High School this week, who have been out of school for 2 years, and have not been placed. In ANY school. What have we become as a community to allow this to happen? Are these girls so blemished and defective that they or their families are in cheirem?
With so many schools in Lakewood I find this hard to believe. Perhaps less children or move to where more schools are. there are three schools on my block in a residential neighborhood. I feel this is an infringement on social wellbeing here.
All the chizuk is nice but system breaks people 💔.
It broke me. Not because I thought Hashem abandoned me. Not because I didn’t use everything in my toolbox to keep it positive.
Because I saw my kid in pain. Because I saw my wife in pain. Because I saw my other children in pain. Because I was so preoccupied with getting my kids into school that My Family suffered, My Business Suffered, My health suffered, My Wife’s health suffered, the trajectory of my family changed forever.
I know this was my Psak Din on Rosh Hashana but someone is also getting a din V’cheshbon for the way we were treated. Full stop.
This is great news! But there is a much greater issue at hand and I am not sure why nobody is talking about this.
Many schools and mosdos in town do not have an opening date due to financial issues, I have met 2 rosh mosdes this week that told me they have no means of opening up.
THERE NEEDS TO BE PUBLIC NOISE about this!!!
That’s amazing news in my opinion as I am wating for the day that our failed system collapse completely so we can declare bankruptcy and start from scratch.
What about my daughter who was told by many professionals and even her own school principal to switch schools but all the local askanim are busy with the primary/high school kids who need a place and then every single school in town says they don’t accept transfers so even trying to do it myself doesn’t work. So yes my daughter needs a school transfer desperately but is sitting at home demoralized that she doesn’t have a school to go to tomorrow first day of school on top of her other traumas in life?????
What happened to the good old days when the vaad would not let the schools open up until each kid is in school. We’ll this article is a fake publicity stunt. There are atleast several girls that are not in school yet, however it seems that most schools are still starting the school year tomorrow.
I was told by someone that was under the instructions of Rabbi Solomon the Mashgiach , he insisted thar no school start until everyone is placed.
honest question – why private schools? Or why not have a more organized system for private schools instead of having so manu different ones? Many comments complain about the expense and it sounds like there is favoritism in who goes to what school. People of other religions send their kids to public schools and supplement religion education with programs like CCD.