“He became a posek when he was hired by the SAR board”
That explains everything.
Which members of the are capable of making someone a posek? There is only ONE rabbi even listed as a board member and his whole claim to fame is Christianity. Perhaps that is why this p’sak came out.
And yes, that is just one of the reasons I would not send my children to SAR. Because of how they choose a posek, who is clearly not competent. That flies in the face of what we are charged with in the very first mishna in Avot.
And it plain idiocy to think that because he is the principal, he becomes a posek. They are very different roles. (And this stance of yours is quite hypocritical, considering how often the charge is leveled that RY cannot be poskim, even extended by your friends about R Shachter, when he came out so strongly against partnership minyanim)
“But he has surprised The Rav’s grandchildren, including Rav Twersky, with some of the things he heard directly from The Rav.” Agin. I see what R Shechter and R Twersky have publicly said, I have no reason to believe your anonymous attributions.
“Rabbi Hershel Schachter does not always follow Rav Soloveitchik either” But he will not say that that he is following R Soloveitchik when he does not. Which is what you are saying now. I trust R Shechter a lot more than you to say what is the derech of R Soloveitchik. Your comment is pointless.
“and himself ran with his wife and daughter a similar school in Massachusetts, the Maimonides school” The Maimonides School allowed girls to wear tefillin in school while R JBS was there? So how can you make such a redacted comparison?