Schools are opening registration for the next school year, Politicians and askanim are busy posing for photo ops but for 18 Elementary school girls they are still waiting for a school for this coming year. A few years ago there were 9 high school girls sitting home until a few weeks before chanuka when they got in to school. They said we wont allow this to go on again! Well its 2 weeks in and 18 girls are sitting at home.
After the Ateres Esther school in Lakewood closed, not all girls were placed. additionally there are still some high school girls with no school yet. Perhaps this should call for a Yom Tefillah on behalf of these neshamos that are on the streets for no fault of their own. Why is this not a priority!
We probably should do a Yom tefilla or maybe even a community fast. Apparently we have become insensitive to others feelings and simply don't care enough. Our galus has been too long. It's time to shake ourselves out of our old behaviors and change. Doing the same thing over and over won't get us different results. I am not affiliated with any schools so I can't help with that angle. We all can daven and beseech Hashem for rachmanus though!
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We need a yom yom tefilla/yom slicha v'kapara for this eer haneedachas asap. The school issue is just the tip of the iceburg.
ReplyDeleteWere they not advised by the askonim, to take their baggage to Crown Heights?
ReplyDeleteI am confused.
Too Bad these girls are not Chabad otherwise all the websites would have blaring headlines "18 Chabad girls not allowed into schools in Lakewood".
ReplyDeleteTLS felt it was such an important issue it was posted on Tisha Bav before chatzos that a girls did not have a school. It seems that whats important is to promote Duvie Honig talking to TV stations in Turkey. Girls not in school? too bad on them their parents don't know how to make noise.
Mayb its the parents fault not the Schools
ReplyDeleteIn this case it is not but even so why are you punishing the kids?
DeleteDon't blame the parents. There are real reasons why parents may not want a specific school. Maybe prior interaction etc... Never judge. Parents have to respect the hanhala of a school for the relationship to be a success. Not everyone in chinuch is perfect, and therefore, the parents have to connect with the school as well. Chinuch is a partnership. Just like you can't dump any boy and girl to marry, you can't dump any child in any school!
DeleteHow is a school/community "punishing the kids" if the kid was accepted and the parents don't send? The parents are punishing in that case...
Deletethese kids were in a school that closed down nothing to do with blaming parents.
ReplyDeleteAll 10 of them?
DeleteI don't know. When I moved to Lakewood 12 years ago I did not get accepted in the schools of my choice. My kids went to the school they were accepted to and we worked on getting them changed to the school we preferred. It took a few years and eventually they switched.
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