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Phil-Unfortunately you have been misinformed. Trust me I am heavily involved in finding candidates for positions in smaller communities. The mindset of today’s kollel graduate is that the world ends on the outskirts of Lakewood. By the time most yungerlite consider getting a job, their children are at the age when it would be a very big sacrifice to move out of town. The numbers of kollel graduates willing to take these positions are greatly reduced due to a number of factors
1. The mindset that one can not move to a smaller community unless he goes with a large chevra (kollel of at least 10)
2. drastically reduced levels of idealism in yeshivos
3. Lack of gedolim encouraging men to take these positions like in yesteryear (R. Ahron, R. Yaakov, R. Ruderman etc.)
4. The polarization of the Jewish community
5. Our Yeshiva bachurim grow up in a bubble and their ability to talk to someone non-frum has a culture and language divide a mile wide
I have been to these schools. They have the children but no one to teach them. It is a tremendous tragedy which I only know of one organization trying to do something about it (not the one you are thinking of).
If you want I can list the names of cities that are suffering