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NPS mandated services from the website petition: transportation, textbooks, computer hardware and software, special education services, etc.
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In regard to Special Ed that ZD DOESN’T know
1)As a “special ed” parent, it was cheaper for district doing it in Frum school than spending the money in the Public School. My child wasn’t “bused” to KJ
2) It’s cheaper for district to accept the fact that they may lose in a court appeal of Special Ed services and have to pay legal and other costs etc.
3)After speaking with many respected health professionals, the standard that ERSCD Special Education uses is anyway a flawed one and should be corrected.
And All Fresh has cheaper prices than any place in Monsey and they give Money back
Monsey Flowers (see online)
Petals and Stems
Please be mispallel for Yaakov Ben Chana Rivah
Jewess,
I want to go out on a limb and say that in a sense Chasidishe or other boys without a degree are more flexible since they aren’t constricted to one job-market,they can try to jump into the market and succeed at whatever it is they try.
Also, alot of the people that I went to college with have changed careers for one reason or the other.If they are let go in today’s economy, they have a problem looking for their niche.
enlightenedjew,
What I was trying to say is while living in the Jewish community. Of course, I could live on farm somewhere and it would be cheaper.
You can’t make a blanket statement that Texas is better since economic situations are usually cyclical and therefore if today NY/NJ isn’t good, tommorrow it is. Like it or not, the local area runs on Wall Street/NYC just as living in Silver Springs/MD is effected if the Fed Govt decided to lay off.
Also, it’s not always feasible (age, children’s individual education needs etc)to move to that area.
enlightenedjew,
You are missing my point. I know many people, who to no fault of their own are not making even 100k especially since alot people who I know who are overqualified (due to layoffs etc) and are barely making ends meet.As a matter of fact, an administrator of a famous yeshiva told a kollel parent “At least you are not a computer programmer…” regarding tuition. And the kollel fellow told me that he felt compelled to blast the administrator “who says that a programmer has it any easier paying tuition”.
My point is that we need:
1)to educate people that working people are not necessarily rich
2)we need to take a good look at ourselves and evaluate what we are good for(kollel,work,rebbi)and if our spouses are in-tune wo what we are doing (decided before the chasunah)to do the best possible job that we can at what we are doing.
3)Try to create opportunities for people to get decent salaries. And yes, making 50k is bad but if you work hard at a job that has potential, people notice and with Hashem’s help you canmove up.
4)As a community we need to solve the tuition issue. Vouchers,”death tax”,living communal tax would be some of the issues. Also, if Chasidishe yeshivas don’t require large tuition bills, we have to look at their model and decide why we are paying 15k.
5)Out of town prices are cheaper but job opportunities are scarcer in Jewish community(ask around you will see)
6)We need people to create cheaper halls and convince rich people to make cheaper simchas to drive down the expected costs of a simcha.
I think,respectfully, that none of you have been in this situation and are posting platitudes towards the Working world. I was in kollel and went to work(like alof of my friends) and even though I have a few degrees, the job market is still tough for me.
Included in the fact is that everyone assumes that since I am working, so I can pay full tuition and give tzedaka etc to the fullest. Having a degree doesn’t guarantee you anything and b’mchilas artchill,there are people whose families are earning over 100k gross who are having problems today.
As a famous Rov and Rosh Yeshiva told me, most of the rich people that i deal with never went to college.
What we really should be doing is creating a venture capital fund and an ideas bank (all our retirees and businessmen)to create new businesses that could help employ others such as Citybrook in Israel does with ladies.
I don’t think it’s an hourly wage. You should give whatever you think is right and it also depends if you know the person and know that he needs the money, you could give more.