Sosha: Huhhh? When determining the amount of tuition parents must provide for their children, a yeshiva factors in all of the charitable donations, grants etc. included in its annual budget. If there are sufficient funds, which there rarely are, then the tuition can be reduced to zero. In the real world, there is some minimum amount they will have to get from ALL parents in order for them to meet their payroll and keep the lights on. Requiring that parents pay that minimum amount is NOT equivalent to stolen money. Indeed, by not requiring them to pay, they would be stealing from teachers who would not be paid on time (since there would be no money in the payroll account) as well as from other parents who are already paying their full share and would be called upon to contribute even more to avoid having the yeshiva close its doors. In simple terms, parents MUST take responsibility to pay for their own children. You just don’t have children and then absolve yourself from supporting them. Assuming the school has done whatever fundraising it can for its scholarship fund, Its then the individual parents’ responsibility to go out and find some baal tzadakah to assist them in paying their tuition or to get a job or a higher paying job or work longer hours so they can afford to pay their bills.
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