I cannot envy the position of the yeshiva administrator. The responsibilities are many and great, and the rewards are limited. What is perhaps a serious deficiency, as suggested by the OP and many of the comments, is the absence of input from the parents. The yeshivos are eager to take our money, but not our ideas, concern for our needs, or any other input. That is angering, and the backlash is obvious. There is no easy answer. To protest against yeshivos is politically unpopular. The dignity of meeting with the powers that be is accorded only to the major donors, not the average parent (even if payiong full tuition). The modification of the system to be a true communnal organization dedicated to the betterment and safety of the children is long overdue, but will only evolve into that inthe long term. Much needs to change.
Some have mentioned it here. We have a society that frowns upon the baal babos and cherishes the kollel lifestyle. Exceptions are made for the major patrons of our communal organizations and yeshivos. We choked our ability to produce the incomes needed to sustain our community. And we are appropriately questioning the wisdom of this. I seriously doubt that Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L and other Roshei Yeshivos intended the kollel to yield this outcome.
Together with today’s economic downturn (though it preceded it by years) is the growing thirst for luxury by the average Yid. We must all have the latest in gadgets, vacations and trips, the extras at our simchos, etc. We are seriously in the red, and yeshivos only turn to us, with government out of the picture today. And it is a disgrace to send our kids to work where they feed the system – they must stay dependent in kollel and drain it further. These same individuals become menahalim and grab what they can without regard for the working class, as per the years of such chinuch. There’s much to change, and it won’t happen quickly.