“And these are people who are helping the yeshivos that do not charge annual tuitions of $25,000 per year (those schools also have budget shortfalls),”
Nisht, This is the precise problem. There is always a short fall there is always a lack of money, there is always a need for more more MORE. Why is there always this need? A lot of this issue has to do with the fact that we are duplicating What is already done in the public school system. We are paying not only rabbis to teach our children Torah but we are also paying English teachers for the rest of the secular subjects. Continuing on this theme, once we are already having to duplicate so much schooling, this neccesitates duplicating the facilities too. It’s too much money. We don’t have any more money to give. The yeshiva system as it currently stands is unsustainable. Now I am not passing judgement on this. But in our pursuit of complete separatism from the non Jewish world so much so that we won’t send our kids to a public school, we have built ourselves into a very very tight corner. Until we all come to grips with that the tuition problem is never going to go away