Counter questions:
* Should children or bochurim be taught to master the skill or art of collecting?
* Should children or bochurim be taught to utilize time that should be spent learning doing fundraising instead?
* Should a yeshiva that already employs fundraising staff do additional collecting via their talmidim?
* Were these bochurim taught how to collect properly – not to disrupt someone’s davening, not to ask for more, not be rude or greedy but only couteous?
* Were the bochurim taught that their cause is no greater than other tzedokoh causes, and that they are not entitled to anyone else’s money?
* Were the bochurim given incentives in dollar figures that makes them more pushy?
I could go on. Collecting tzedokoh is not always a bad thing. But it can be highly disruptive to others, and of questionable merit for a bochur’s schedule. The balancing of the yeshiva budget should not be placed on the shoulders of the students, ever, period. I recall yeshivos whose bochurim were told to collect for their yeshiva on Purim. Two brothers were almost expelled because they collected on Purim for a worthy tzedokoh that was not their yeshiva. Something smells bad about that. I suggest that yeshivos read through lists of questions such as those presented here, and then determine if and how to send bochurim collecting.