Reply To: Going off the Derech

I agree with zahavasdad that many times, the school Rebbes don’t have the skills necessary to teach. They may know a lot of Torah, but that doesn’t guarantee that they know how to give it over to kids, or that they know how to encourage a desire to learn/love of learning (which I think is the most important thing!). I’ve heard so many stories from friends where the Rebbes can’t control the class, and often resort to very strict/questionable methods. In all fairness to some of these Rebbes, some of the kids today are very difficult, with ADHD running rampant, and you really need very experienced mechanichim who are well equipped to deal with these kids, and not Rebbes who are emotionally frail or the perfectionist type.