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1. According to rav elyashiv and others, an industry that is known not to pay on time has no issur of bal talin.
In addition most yeshivas will tell their incoming employees what their financial status is. Nobody is forcing anyone to work in a yeshiva and then not paying them. It is understood that the owners and administrators will do their best based on the realities they live with.
2. The only reason a sane owner/administrator of a yeshiva would put themselves and their families through this nightmare of a life is because they love hashem,love torah,love chinuch, and love am yisrael. Stop the hate… you dont want to sacrifice what they sacrifice.
3. They are too nice to parents. Owner/educators buy education for 100 sell for 50 and then have to beg you to buy a 25 dollar raffle ticket to a Chinese auction. Too often a young parent doesnt have the funds gets a huge break for many years but doesnt pay it forward to the yeshiva. They think they “negotiated” a deal and dont owe anything to anybody. Administrators should stop letting parents save face calling these breaks “scholarships” and “discounts” and call it what it is “charity” or a “loan”
4. Administrators should charge their tuitions and someone who cant pay should go to a community based tuition organization. As communities we cannot impose the communal charity responsibility on the yeshivas. Let them focus on education and not have every mossad make ridiculous efforts to fundraise for charity.