I am out of the house 7 am to 6 pm. As is my husband. Granted we only have 2 kids, but we make it work. My house isn’t spotless but its passable. We do what we can.
For those of you with cleaning help – if schools said we won’t give you a scholarship without it, would you be willing to give up your cleaning help? Or forgo yeshiva education?
Says who, I value Yeshiva education enough that there are plenty of ways I will sacrifice to make sure they can have a good, solid education. If moving was required, I would. B”H, my husband and I have found a possible solution that will allow us to pay full tuition without too much agmas nefesh by sending our kids to a school that is 15 minutes further away.
We make a lot of choices in life. These are the things I wouldn’t give up to make sure that my kids had a good Jewish education:
1) Food
2) Shelter
3) Running water
4) Basic clothing
5) Love
Anything after that is fair game. I would get rid of my gardener, sell (or rent) my house, sell my jewelry and other possesions etc. But I think I am in the minority. I’m not surprised that schools in Lakewood are closing down because people don’t make tuition a priority. They make Kollel a priority (which is 100% valid if that’s what they want), but then Yeshiva education gets lost.