Edited You correctly acknowledge the laws of economics apply to yeshivos as they do to any other not-for-profit mosdos but then you turn around and assert that there is a “huge perctengage of the community” that earns too little to pay tuitiion”. Which is it?? Both cannot be true at the same time. Instead you call for some magical “mechanism” to bridge the funding gap. What “mechanism” are you talking about?? Should each school impose some type of “wealth tax” on the parents of the more affluent students to provide free tuition to those whoc cannot afford to pay. (Not that many yeshivos already have tuition surcharges that go to their scholarship funds)? If so, how much?? Should the tuition of the rabbonim and moros be cut even further?? Do you know of some big time baalei tzadakah who are ready to come forward with the needed funds? You reject as” ridiculous” the notions of parents scaling their school choices with their ability to pay, groups of parents forming their own home-schooling and tutoring cooperatives geared t affodability etc. What then is your solution? In some cases, it may mean that BOTH parents get a job, possibly hold a second job, or get the job skills to increase their compensation. There are difficult tradeoffs that have to be made and there is no magical fix to the problem as you seen to assert without any support.
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