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- Tehillim: Please daven for Shaul Ben Pessel, 10-year-old boy who is seriously/critically ill in hospital due to flu complications
- NJ is about to report its highest covid case count ever. Previous high was 6,859 on Jan 13th 2021. We just broke it by a whopping 42% higher. And what does our Governor do? Leaves the country on vacation and cancels all conferences until January (Woke Zombie)
-Flu dominates in Lakewood more than covid cases with hundreds of children and teens at home. Longer than usual wait times at urgent care facilities
- NJ12 report: 30 percent of covid hospitalizations in Ocean County are from breakthrough cases mainly affecting older populations and those with underlying conditions
- Gov. Phil Murphy is leaving New Jersey for an eight-day holiday vacation to Costa Rica with his family today.
- Gov Murphy extends the utility shutoff grace period from December 31, 2021, to March 15, 2022, for all water, municipal electric, and sewer customers.
- Several Lakewood girls schools cancel Friday classes to no busing ahead of holiday on the 25th
- Hearing on zoning application for yeshiva in Brick will continue in February lawyers for the school said they don't have a readily available alternative to the school building and inability to operate will prevent it from fulfilling its religious mission to teach Orthodox Jewish students religious and secular subjects."
- Chalav yisrael ice cream parlor opening in American Dream mall next to the new Toys R Us
- Murphy: I am appalled that swastikas were recently drawn outside a synagogue in West Orange, at Westfield High School, and at Marlton Middle School. We will not let antisemitism or hatred go unchallenged here in New Jersey, and we will hold those behind these despicable acts responsible.
- Democrats win congressional redistricting fight The tiebreaker on the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission, former Supreme Court Justice John E. Wallace, Jr., has picked the Democratic map, Dem Andy Kim Rep Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) are now in the same district, but Smith is expected to move into the new 4th, which includes municipalities he’s represented for decades. The Democratic map removes all of Ocean County from Kim’s district and creates one that includes all of Burlington (NJGlobe)
At a chasuna in Lakewood last night
This is terrible chinuch to give off on Friday. We are telling the kids to celebrate kratzmach.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the seichel of those incharge
There are no drivers available. So unless you're going to drive the bus, keep quiet
DeleteEver heard of car pool???
DeleteYes schools are staying open asking parents to car pool. No excuse to close down because no buses especially because of the holiday. Bad decisions by people entrusted with chinuch of our daughters
Actually its a very good decision. Carpools are not the answer, especially on Fridays when the girls are in school for less than 2 hours, by the time they get there (with all the traffic) they will have to leave. What type of chinuch is it for girls to see the adults doing things that are silly and impractical? Smart decision to be practical and just shut down schools for the day.
DeleteBy the way, is it terrible chinuch to teach the boys not to learn on kratzmach? Lets just teach the girls the same thing, and everything will be fine.
You obviously have no clue what goes on regular Fridays with school lasting less than 2 hours the buses on Friday is even worse than carpools with buses first showing up at 9:30-10:00 and dismissal starts at 11:00- 11:15
DeleteBut with all that there is school. The decision not to open was not made with yiddishkeit or chinuch. They should not be in charge of our daughters chinuch
Schools should use their conference lines on Friday- the ones they set up for covid.
ReplyDeleteThis way they have school, but no transportation issues.
Schools should allow the option if the covid conference lines every day. This will allow the kids the freedom to grow normally instead of being locked up in a classroom every day for 13+ years.
DeleteThat is what Chedvas is doing! Mandatory call in school.
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ReplyDeleteper 100,000 Population, those who are non vaxxed are 9x more likely to end up in ICu according to Canadian
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One cannot trust Canadian stats. They used to count mannequins in the icu. I live here. They exaggerate, lie hide the truth in order to keep this farce alive. There has not been one death as far as I know in the frum community from covid19 since it started.
DeleteThe issue with that stat - more of the vacinated are people in the public sector and healthcare which were more likely exposed to covid and either got covid or were asymptomatic. So there is never going to be a good definite stat to rely on - Unless you can be certain the exact status of people in each group.
DeleteThe genius that keeps posting that “they shouldn’t be in charge of your child’s Chinuch” is 100 % right. You should definitely remove your children from every Lakewood Moisad immediately. If you’re brainless enough to actually think that this decision was made as quickly as your stupid response, you should homeschool your children, and pass on to them all the daas Torah that you give and of course learn while surfing the web all day.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, “many” mechanchim and mechanchos of many different moisdos were in heavy discussion on this matter for many hours and days. It blows the mind, that someone like you would think that they didn’t think of the concerns that you had.
The teachers and mechanchos were not consulted at all it was a fly by the night decision. As a matter of fact many schools will be open with carpool.
ReplyDeleteStop trying to defend a stupid decision that was not thought out well or made by the right people.
Name changed to Chaim Shaul ben Pessel
ReplyDeletePlease daven
I never said Teachers. I said Mechanchos aka principals that are in Chinuch for 40+ years. But like I said, you obviously have more daas Torah than them, that’s why they’re the principals and you’re the anonymous commenter on a blog.
ReplyDeleteWhile odds may be somewhat in that order
Deletemuch experience shows are there really guarantees
There are mechanchos that are 40+ years in chinuch who agree with the anonymous bloggers to have school open. Sad attempt on your part to win a argument
DeleteYou cannot turn the whole Lakewood into one big Gridlock in the Winter on a Short Friday when Shabbos runs early and everyone has 100 things to take care of
ReplyDeleteLet the children stay home and learn with their Parents or Freinds and Chavruses at home or Shul
No one said they should not learn
The question is if they and their parents should spend the whole day on the road trying to get to school which will be over by the time they get there
And no one wants to sit in standstill traffic in Lakewood for an hour or more with a bunch of restless and cranky kids
Haha mit amuhl you care about traffic and are concerned about the parents spending their day in traffic
DeleteNEWS FLASH people sit daily in Lakewood traffic for hours
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ReplyDeleteSam,
unlikely but possibly that may be the case where you dwell,however there were three in Frumme Toronto who passed away as per info From the virus:
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