Keeping ALL stuidents out of school to resolve the school assignment/acceptance issues for a small number of students having difficulty finding a match make no sense. You don’t fix the problem by holding a gun to the heads of parents who have zero ability to fix the problem by keeping their kids from learning, creating enormous disruption to their daily lives since most work and have no alternative day care arrangements etc. You are not going to build new classrooms overnight and temporary trailer classrooms on school athletic field or parking lots may not be an option in crowded urban locations. Perhaps consider some hybrid arrangement using the public schools on a limited basis so the kids get a mimimal amount of secular instruction and organize interim afternoon programs at shuls and other mosdos for limudei torah for a few weeks until some additional space can be found at regular yeshivos. Again, many frum parents may not want their kids to attend a “public” school even for a few weeks and would rather teach them at home until a desk opens at a local yeshiva.
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