Following the publication of the over 100 girls from Elad whom have been rejected by the city’s seminaries (high schools) despite being Beis Yaakov graduates, Knesset Education Committee Chairman Yaakov Margi has announced a special session will be held in two weeks to address the matter.
It has been reported that the schools have decided they will not accept the girls because their parents work. Both schools have decided that for the 5776 school year, girls from homes in which the parents work will not be accepted. It is added here that the new regulation many believe has boomeranged for it was likely implemented in a back door effort to discriminate against the Sephardi girls but it has now been learned many of the parents from Ashkenazi homes are working too. Therefore the group of girls locked out of school in Elad are from Ashkenazi and Sephardi families.
Deputy Elad Mayor (Shas) Tzuriel Krisfel has called on the Ministry of Education and Elad City Hall to act immediately and appropriately and to shut both schools if that is what it takes to get the girls into ninth grade.
It has also been pointed out that the girls who today are school-less represent 50% of the girls tested to enter into the two seminaries, Zluznik and Ladaas Chachma.
The Education Ministry has in the past compelled schools to accept Sephardi girls or give up receiving state funding. This is why it is believed the new regulation barring girls who come from working parents has been implemented since it was believed the Ashkenazim are more likely to be learning while the Sephardi parents would be counted among those who work.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Menahalim(os) are universally under the delusion that their arbitrary criteria for admission make their schools better. Barring perfectly good girls because of the careers of the parents is utterly foolish. It is an embarrassment to all of Klal Yisroel that such policies are created and followed. This is often spiritual murder for many of those left to fend for themselves, with too many being lost to the streets. Rav Shteinman once referred to such policies (on a popular video) as “Gaavah”. Stopping young people who want to learn from access to yeshivos is definitely not Ratzon Hashem.
It is not assur to work.it is assur to cause tsar and anguish to innocent people. “Shar hadmeos lo ninalu”