Im on a board as well…
1. Rav Y.S. Elyashiv, quoted in Halachos Of other people’s Money, pg. 113. See also Avnei Yashfei 2:118
In an industry that pays late there is no issue of bal talin.
Generally this industry will fully disclose exactly how behind or not behind they are. If someone is disgruntled after they knew this they dont belong in chinuch. Everyone is entitled to complain, but no one is forcing anyone to be a rebbe.
2. The real answer is that the owners and administrators are too nice to families who are struggling. They buy education for 100, sell it for 50, and are forced to beg people to give 25 dollars to a chinese auction. The only reason a sane administrator or rosh yeshiva would put himself and his family through this is that they love hashem,Torah and chinuch and am yisrael.
This reason is the same reason some send to these poorly funded yeshivas. Its because the people who run them have these extremely important values that they want their kids to see and absorb.
It doesnt have to be this way…especially now that as a whole the frum community in many areas are making more money and leading more extravagant lives than 10-20 years ago and tuitions have not really been raised. Often parents who dont have enough to pay are given huge breaks and later when they make money dont feel they have any responsibility to that yeshiva. They think they”negotiated” a deal. Maybe the yeshiva should stop calling it a “scholarship” or “discount” to help the parents save face and call it what it should be “charity” or a “loan”
Please stop hating on owners and administrators. You do not want to be in their shoes.