>> I can’t believe a teacher of torah and yiddishkeit
>> is allowed to scare children into submission by
>> telling them to listen to tapes about gehennom!!
I do not know — unfortunately I do not have much fear.
Once in Texas I saw a special bus — without air conditioning, with plexiglass windows, with very strong doors and with several steel — reinforced separated compartments. At that time, the bus was without passengers.
Most passengers who are carried by this bus had no fear of Gehennom. That is one of the reasons US justice system is the harshest in the world — in order to be feared by those who have no fear of G-d.