Reply To: It's Almost September… Does every child have a school?

SJSinNYC, if this is the case, that a family can pay tuition but refuses because they want to pay for luxuries, I am surprised because the tuition committees are not handing out tuition breaks so easily. If they get away with it, then Hashem deals with those kind of people and chas v’shalom their children’s chinuch may suffer as a result.

I think that if a parent cannot pay full tuition then they should help support the school in other ways. For example, the boys and girls can collect soda bottles and get the five cent deposit and the parents who can’t pay should drive these kids once a week to redeem the bottles. I know boys who collect money this way for Rubashkin, and it does add up.

The schools and parent body have to come up with ways of raising funds because tuition alone is not enough and the schools are closing. Yeshivos have to become our priority because without Jewish education for our children there is no future.