MKs affiliated with Degel Hatorah are making noise, displeased by the severe overcrowding that exists in schools in Yerushalayim. The MKs visited kindergartens in the Ramat area of the capital and they were shocked to see the conditions that exist.
As the nation’s public schools open their doors for the 5775 school year today, Monday 6 Elul, Degel elected officials visited affiliated kindergartens in the capital. MK Moshe Gafne, Uri Maklev and Yaakov Asher took part in the tour together with party affiliated Jerusalem Councilmen Yisrael Kellerman, Eliezer Ruchberger and Menachem Shapira. They began the morning at a girl’s kindergarten in Ramat A, where they saw severe overcrowding conditions.
From there they went to Ramat B where they saw a girl’s kindergarten with 31 children. That facility is hosted in an apartment, sharing the space with the family which lives there.
MK Asher asked cynically “I am interested in knowing if the daughter of Mayor Nir Barkat began her year in such difficult conditions”.
The MKs planned to visit schools in other neighborhoods as well, promising to work hard to alleviate the unacceptable overcrowding.
MK Maklev had harsh words for City Hall, accusing officials of intentionally ignoring the basic needs of the chareidi community in the city. “What did they innocent children do wrong that they are stuffed in shelters and storage facilities” he questioned rhetorically. He pointed out there are many vacant buildings available but the city will not give them to the chareidi sector.
2,105,394 children began the year in Israel’s public school system today, Monday, which includes 164,999 first graders.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Well, if they cut the budgets combining classes is the only solution.
in our neighborhood in jerusalem, in the beis yaakov, they stuff over 40 girls in small classrooms and in the yard they built trailers as classrooms leaving no room for over 1000 girls to play during recess
One can not expect the government to resolve your problems unless you pay the price (which is usually a very high price to pay, such as agreeing to limiting the hours of learning Torah for children, and cooperating to have the children turned into zionists so they’ll be good soldiers for the Medinah).
If you want to be free of the government, you can’t expect the government to solve your problems for you. You have to solve your own problems yourself, which is what frum Jews always did in the past.
Why oh why does everyone wake up the first day of school? Don’t families have to pre-register? Don’t they know the amounts of students before day ONE? Why aren’t these issues dealt with during the SUMMER?