Beit Shemesh City Hall and the Ministry of Education appear to have reached an agreement regarding the controversial Safot U’Tarbuot School that is being used in part by a frum girl’s school over objections of the parents. The draft agreement was submitted to the Jerusalem District Court for approval.
The agreement stipulates the ministry will budget four portable buildings in the courtyard of the school building complex to house the 110 girls attending the chareidi school. These portable buildings will house the girls instead of using the empty portion of the existing building, which the parents of the Safot U’Tarbuot School find objectionable. The Safot U’Tarbuot School has room for 500 students but there are only 144 students registered to use the building this year.
Simultaneously, Beit Shemesh City Hall and the Education Ministry will work to find a long-term solution regarding the critical shortage of classrooms in the city. At present, it appears the Safot U’Tarbuot School in the next school year will move to a vacant building in Old Beit Shemesh to permit allocating that entire building to the chareidi sector, which needs more classrooms.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The whole machlokes could have been avoided, with a better outcome than now, if the politicians knew how or cared to deal with people properly.
Next year will never happen. The chilonim will never allow their kids to go to school in what is most likely a dump in Old BS, even though they are bussed in to Aleph now. But it would be fine for local frum little girls to shlep to a building where the whole environment is secular (to say the least.) Yes, I live in BS.