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- Candle lighting 7:46 pm Shkiah 8:04 pm
Shabbos mevorchim Elul Rosh chodesh is Sunday & Monday
- 15 New covid cases in Lakewood totals 13922/312
- Murphy: mask mandate for private schools too
Only indoors from age 2 and up not during eating time.
The health and safety of our kids is among my most sacred responsibilities.
All students, educators, staff, and visitors will be required to wear masks inside of school buildings – regardless of vaccination status – for the start of the 2021-2022 academic year.
- CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated. The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people, and could spread it to other individuals.
(CNBC)
– Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for New Jersey Governor, "Governor Phil Murphy has done it again. His decision to require masks for K-12 students is a bewildering reversal of his position of just a few weeks ago. Let me be clear, I oppose Governor Murphy's mask mandate for students. The science is clear: nearly all children who contract COVID-19 are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and wearing masks for children is terrible for their social and emotional development. Bottom line, whether a child wears a mask should be decided by parents, not government.
- Food distribution people who registered with a provider were told that due their small family size they are not eligible. It does not mean that they cant receive a box just that the provider is preparing boxes for larger size families. They can apply or go to other providers who cater to a smaller family size
- Hezbollah fired over 10 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israeli some rockets were intercepted by the Aerial Defense System others landed in open areas. IDF striking positions in Lebanon
- 18 Jewish girls from the tristate area were stuck in Shipol airport in Amsterdam refused entry on KLM flight as airline accused of extortion and antisemitism. Askanim work on getting them home before shabbos Story here
-LDC board members were evasive at times mumbling and could not provide answers or give explanations during their meeting when they were questioned by a Lakewood resident about the deal they signed pertaining to the demolition and sale of the community center on 4th street. Why they allowed to be demolished without having a replacement built and why was there no plan to replace the recreation area. The lawyer eventually said he will provide more information later on watch video Here minute mark 38:30
-New law: Drivers in NJ must now move over when passing people walking and on bikes It would require drivers to move over one lane when passing, if it safe to do so, or allow four feet of space between the car and the person being passed. If that is not safe to do, it would require a driver to slow to 25 mph.
-Lakewood township votes to have no parking on both sides of prospect street from Rt 9 to Cross st. Also a 3 way stop sign is coming to Funston & Coles way intersection
Askanim bring up empty threat of postponing the start of the high school year untill all girls are accepted. It would mean schools will start after sukkos. There is currently 80-90 girls waiting. Last year some schools opened on time despite the call to push off the opening day
-New figures from Public Health England say nearly 35% hospitalized with #COVID19 had received two doses of a vaccine.
https://youtu.be/2fGStzvZY80
ReplyDeleteThe entire Kikar Shabbos on 4th & Monmouth saga stinks worse than a rotten fish.
ReplyDeletemoney makes the town go round
DeleteDid Lakewood’s Land Management Consultant sign off on this deal?
Deleteback door favoritism and nepotism makes the town go round
DeleteSo 5000 girls should roam the streets hefker for weeks or months because 50 or 60 out of the 80 girls who could have gotten into some school, hold out for their parents chosen school. They might be allowed to feel that the chosen school is better for their daughter , but if the chosen school is full ,then it shouldn't be a reason for 5000 girls to roam the streets
ReplyDeleteYet with pressure, these previously "full" schools suddenly find room.
DeleteThere isn't room. They just make the class sizes bigger which is detrimental to ALL the girls - even the one getting squeezed in. Some schools have 45 girls per class, with 3 parallel classes. How can any teacher get information to all the girls and for sure not connect to any of them. I know teachers who admit they wouldn't even recognize a girl on the street if she was in her class or not!
DeleteYou might be surprised. At some point even pressure can't create more space. Maybe we are at that point.
DeleteLove the mosdos' sockpuppets here on Hefkervelt, who are happy to accuse a bunch of parents who want the best for their children.
Delete" sockpuppets"
DeleteWell
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Rechnits offered to fund new schools 2 years ago. What happened
ReplyDeleteI know people that were willing to work hard to make new schools but asked the local askanim to take responsibility for funding any shortfall after tuition . They were laughed at for asking for funding. They were told that funding is on them. Nobody is funding anything other than more fancy restaurants and high end silver and jewelry stores and 2 million dollar mansions. But for high schools there is no funding.
DeleteThe Non for Profit mosdos have been an extremely profitable business in the last 20 years. Sniff around your local "school owner" and you'll know exactly why everyone's asking "did you say not enough money?!"
DeleteSo why exactly is everybody making elementary girls schools and not high schools ? There is such a shortage and the law of supply and demand dictates that any profitable business has many people willing to make it ? What you say makes no sense .
Deleteare you offering to be the principal?
ReplyDeleteNo. But I know somebody that offered to hire a good principal and work hard to hire the best talent and he would not even take a salary. But he couldn't get the town to fund it. He wasn't willing to go into debt to the tune of millions to make it happen. The days of paying teachers and principals measly salaries are over. The ladies would rather go to work in businesses that are desperate for workers because the businesses are making millions here in town . So it takes a lot of money to make and run a high school .
DeleteNot sure what a sock puppet is . But who is accusing anybody of anything. Of course every parent has the right to want what they think is best for their child .but if there are 1500 8th graders and most of them want to go to the same 3 or 4 schools that have room for only 700 together,please explain to me how that works so that anybody who wants can go to those schools that are overflowing and leave some other schools with empty desks . I'm not in this business's but I dont understand how that can work .
ReplyDeleteYour temimus is touching, and dangerous.
DeleteIt is not a coincidence that 'everyone' wants to go to the same schools. There are systems at work to push this. And those systems did not give birth to themselves. They were made bemachshava techila by people who did not have the public's benefit in mind.
The system was set up that there should be losers and winners, because the 'winners' need losers to feel like winners. If schools accepted children solely according to the schools' ability to educate them, the whole idea of 'better' and 'worse' would not exist. It's only because the schools and Yeshivos market themselves solely on the children entering them, not on what they have to offer a child, that we look like this.
Do an experiment. Ask a father who is sending his child to Mesivta, any Mesivta, what they know about the Mesivta and listen to the answer. 4 times out 5 the answer will be about the kind of boy that goes there, instead of about the hanhala's ability to help his child.
This is a terrible thing, and it's only getting worse. Mosdos have no incentive to help bochurim and girls, because that won't get them more children. We are relying on their leshem shamayim, which is extremely dangerous.
It's not with pressure that these "erliche" princepals find more room,it's with GELT!
ReplyDeleteEvery elementary should have it's own high school and this won't be an issue. But it's less profitable apparently.
ReplyDeleteI spoke to somebody who was interested on making a new high school. He researched it thoroughly and the costs are about double as much as elementary schools because there,are are many more teachers and there is a lot of extra curricular salaries and expenses and they have many teachers that get paid extra to be mechaneches. So the tuitions also need to be close to double elementary tuitions which
DeleteIs the case in many out of town high schools but in Lakewood especially the more yeshivishe schools the tuitions are almost the same .
Some elementary schools have looked into it. But they would lose too much money on the high school portion so they decided not to go ahead with it .
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