I happen to feel that sending out letters, as opposed to having meetings with the parents and the kids about the issues and treating them like baalei devorim in the matter, is a cop out and incredibly ineffective. There are a myriad of other more intelligent tactics that can be used here. I do feel though, that a yeshiva is allowed to create and enforce policies and I have no problem with the letter per se if that is the route the yeshiva has decided to go down. My point was that typically yeshivas create policy to deter the kids who will do the wrong thing anyhow and that this generally tends to be counterproductive and drive kids who want to do the right thing in the wrong direction. To quote my rosh yeshiva “No yeshiva has ever won a cat and mouse game”. Again Vehamaivin Yavin.
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