Reply To: Yeshiva tuition for large families

I realize that yeshivas may not be the best at secular education and may not even realistically teach learning very well. The fact is that all frum kids have to go to a yeshivah/Bais yaakov, regardless of the scholastic achievements of the school. It’s just the way it is.

Most frum families I know of have about 6-8 kids and not everyone is a doctor/lawyer that’s bringing in 7 figures. So how do people do it?

My impetus for this post is because I’ve heard from friends and peers who, after seeing their parents struggle with tuition costs, are trying to deal with overwhelming yeshiva obligations by limiting family size.

This route has been given rabbinic allowance, and those “special situations” are becoming increasingly more common.

This disturbs me and I’d rather not succumb to what I see as a threat to Orthodox continuity.

My question to those parents of many, is how they do it? Do you live your life normally but within budget and claim poverty? Or do you have an extremely low food budget, rent small apartments, and buy older used cars to pay for tuition,