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Children’s yeshiva is wonderful in all other areas, chinuch, level of yiddishkeit, rebbeim, etc. but the Rosh yeshiva did admit that he extended the Sunday hours because “the parents wanted it.” I asked, “which parents?” since I was never asked! And so I decided to call the arents of my sons’ classes to see where the majority stood on this issue, and sure enough, it was a small minority who were all for these longer hours, but when I called the mother who is known to be half of the wealthiest parents of the school, known to give major donations, and hosts of the yearly women’s Nshei parlor meeting, her reply was, “oh I’m thrilled about the longer Sunday hours. My boys don’t have anything to do at one on Sunday afternoons;let them stay in school longer!” I was disgusted and felt like asking, “did it ever occur to you to designate Sunday afternoons as a good family day to actually SPEND SOME TIME with your kids and take them out somewhere for fun?,” clueless and undressing of having children.