Reply To: Why Brooklyn Bais Yaakovs Need Unity Now

Syag Lchochma, iacisrmma –

“beggars can’t be choosers” means that the parents are desperate (hence “begging” for their child to get into a school), and therefore can’t hold out for the ideal. If you (or they) took that as saying that the parents in the school or their children are any less deserving of the ideal, please don’t (I didn’t).

Once again, if the best school for these children is Prospect (let’s say), then they can’t demand entry there just because they got messed up by the closure.