Reply To: The slowly disappearing community school of old.

Those idyllic times never existed. The community school I attended in the 1950s accepted your word that you couldn’t pay tuition, and rebeiim would go months without a paycheck. One classmate dressed in shmattes to avoid paying. His parents tried the same thing in high school. He came to class on first day in real nice clothes, explaining that the high school had a committee and wanted to see tax returns before granting a scholarship. His father was earning 100k in 1964.
My fil served on a scholarship committee in 1965. He lived in an apartment yet paid full tuition while people who owned homes and new cars were requesting and getting tuition reductions.
What I’m saying is that if you want to pay renned a living wage and pay it on time you must run a yeshiva as a business. If you give scholarships on the honor system, people will take advantage