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I wanted to start a General Tuition Fund where askanim donated money to this fund and Yeshivas had to apply to this organization to be accepted and approved in order to get money for their students. They would have to follow guidelines and rules set by the Committee and Rabbonim involved like not throwing kids out to the street and only being allowing to kick kids out by transferring them to another Yeshiva; having a staff handbook; having staff training sessions, having staff review and report cards to make sure they are up to par etc.
When parents had trouble making tuition payments they could apply to the committee and the committee would deal with the Yeshiva and be the middleman. The parent would not have to go to the Yeshiva and beg or embarrass themselves. Once the committee finalized the “deal”, the parent would then send the payments to the “fund” and the fund would then pay the Yeshiva. Neither the parent nor the child would be embarrassed to go to Yeshiva, nor be afraid to complain if there was problems at the Yeshiva because they wouldn’t feel like second class citizens. The parents would not know how much the yeshiva would be getting in payments because they would only know how much they themselves would be putting in.
I feel that people would be more willing to donate to a general Yeshiva fund than to individual yeshivas because many people are feeling upset and angry at the way yeshivas are being run and how many kids are being treated. When donating money to a general tuition fund, you know that your money is really going to help the kids go to yeshiva and help their parents pay for their education. In the end it is a win/win situation because the Yeshivas wind up getting paid their tuition monies and the kids and parents have less of a financial stress and strain.