The financial aspect is really not what I was referring to in my letter. Yes the schools are run like businesses and that is one aspect of the problem. But the people that call the schools about other children being accepted are worried about the “image” of the school they send their children to. It is a very elitest attitude. Really what makes anybody better than the next? My dissappointment is that we should be better than lowering ourselves to loshon horah and sinaas chinum just because we want to fit into a mold or portray an image. This is not what judaism is about. Every child deserves a chance and some of the people I know who cant get their children into schools have plenty of money to pay full tuition. It is quite shocking that this is going on in the frum world and that is why I feel we need a wake up call. Where are our priorities???? Keeping up with the Joneses in being the “frummest”? Or working on our midos and being dan lakaf zchus and giving every child a fair chance?
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