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I have an acquaintance who is divorced. Her ex is supposed to pay child support and for the yeshivos. He decided that he isn’t paying for both anymore. She is working but can’t afford tuition herself. She is can’t get much goverment help because her ex signed that he would pay. The yeshiva told her to keep the boys at home until she can pay.
I understand the yeshiva needs money, but what does a poor person do? This isn’t a yeshiva that charges $10,000 a year. The tuition is about the average.
Does she have to send the kids to public school?
She needs to get a court settlement. Those can usually be enforced.
Ahh classic yeshivas.. they care more about money thatn a child being Jewish. 10 years from now they’re going to be forced to lower their tuition rates Bc this generation has no.money
“Ahh classic yeshivas.. they care more about money thatn a child being Jewish.”
wow.
How does this have anything to do with the yeshiva? Her ex is the one who’s wronging her. If he won’t pay amicably out of court and can’t be forced into a proper settlement, he should at least leave her some way to get government aid.
Send the kids to him during the day.
Can’t she take legal action against her ex-spouse?
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To Harotzehbilumshmo, I must respectfully disagree with you because, if the Yeshivah has a dinner and raises money from sources other than tuition, they, in my opinion, do not have the right to keep a child out of class due to lack of tuition payments. I
Admit:
1- If 40 % is form tuiton, how are mosdos supposed to cover the other 60 if not coming on to others to help out the shortfall?
2- I fully believe that if the fundraising was successful adn 70% percent came in they would not pocket it, they would use it for the needs of the Yeshiva
3- If I have not been paid in 3 months because my employer ( a mossad) cannot pay me and now I cannot pay my tuition commitment because I have no $$$$,and my kids mosdos call me all the time to pay what should I do? What should they do?
admitnothing: Do you think many yeshivos do that type of thing?
Harotzeh, first of all I’m talking about modern schools which charge 20,000$ and do send.kids home if they cant afford it. Second of all where did you get that 40% of aschools budget is tuition?? Buddy I’ve worked in these schools before, trust me they would charge even more for tuition but they want some people to attend. I’m telling you in 10 years from now, these schools will be forced to cut their rates.
Rabbaim- I think you should do shibbuda d’rav nosson.
Mods- Is there any way you can weed out the inappropiate “better-than-thou” comments by bombmaniac? He seems to have a superiority complex caused by pressing “Enter”. I am seeing it more and more frequently, and it doesn’t serve any purpose in any thread.
kfb, I don’t think you are referring to “classic yeshivas” here…
She may have to send her kids to another Yeshivah that will be more willing to work with her. I have been there (in terms of my husband and I not being able to afford the tuition), so I know how painful it is for ANY parent. Kal V’chomer for a single mother trying to what’s best for her kids. Her ex has a legal obligation al pi halacha to give his kids a Torah education, as well as additional secular obligations to provide child support. So I wish her hatzlacha in putting legal pressure on him to do the right thing.
First of all, in no way did I intend to intone that a child should be sent home. That is a question for an adam golol and not for me. I too would assume that one may not. I was not even offering an opinion regarding the posters particular story. None of us know the full picture and therefore have no right to an opinion. My post was nothing more than an indignant response to the character assassination of our mosdos hatorah. I am not familiar with the inner workings or ideals of the more modern mosdos and can only speak from experience in what most of us would refer to as mainstream mosdos.
I agree too that once a school fundraises they have an obligation to the tzibur. That said, fundraising is a tedious task that brings in a fraction of what it needs to. There needs to be a system whereby the parents are obligated to make good on their portion.
Additionally, my number of 40% is not across the board. I have personally reviewed the budgets of mosdos and spoken with roshei hamosdos regarding their budget and that seems to be a fair average. Girls school maybe higher, mesivtos sometimes lower. Modern schools or schools with very large classes more, high staff to student ratio less.
I’m confused by the o/p. The title of the thread is “What to do if you can afford tuition?” If one can afford tuition, you obviously pay it.
Nu. She meant if you “can” (on paper), but really can’t, due to your ex’s capriciousness.
It’s a typo, it should be “can’t”. The mods could correct it.
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