or maybe they don’t feel like sharing it online, or maybe it is irrelevent because that isn’t really what their quesiton was.
The question was “Any suggestions?”. One way would be to crowdsource the budget so that savings can be found and paid to the Yeshiva. You don’t want it to be public? There are organizations that can help with squeezing more out of a budget.
considering tuition is about $13k-20k, Im not sure what i would be sending $60k for.
Four years of High School.
To your final point, I don’t disagree with you, as per my short post above (seven children, one bedroom). Had the OP said he was living on less than 40K, that would make more sense. Any Yeshiva Administrator who would see someone making 90K (Income < $100K) and only one tuition, would expect more than $200 a month. If denied, they would rightfully suspect that the parent is trying to stiff the school. Hence my suggestion to the OP to explain or invite the administrator into their apartment so he can see for himself that the family is living a life of Mistapek B’muat, even if the 1040 doesn’t show it.
Regarding cutting corners, If you go through my posts, I’m a strong advocate of giving to schools before anything else, recognizing there are those responsible people who just can’t hold up to the impossible burden of tuition.
That all being said, the Rabbaim need to eat and the electricity needs to be paid. We can’t have an automatic “right” of Yeshiva education without taxation powers. There are ways (Chazal had a good one in Kesubos 49B) to create additional funding from parents, but they are not politically correct. End result, Yeshivos need the money.