mdd, outrageous? Not quite, they understood that Teaching Torah comes along with derech eretz, something many have forgotten today!!! Also they understood the quality of people form the inside out, as I said before and they weren’t trying to outfrum the frumest. It was a time for healing and rebuilding one step at a time, and that is something that this generation needs to learn as well.
Learn to pick your battles and you will have better success. What is more important the neshoma of the child or the levush?????? Will the children from the home of a family a little to the left influence the other children or will the other children have more of an influence on them AND will the child who learns in this yeshiva influence their parents?????
Why do the yeshivas have such a lack of confidence in themselves and their students that they fear so much from a young innocent child that is a little bit different than them? Look at what SHUVU has done in E”Y with russian children. Parents don’t even have to be frum and there children go to Shuvu schools started by Rav Pam. The children all learn about Torah and Yiddishkeit and the childrn turn Frum and influence their parents to do the same.
When a child comes to a school, the school gives the rules to the parents. If they agree then so be it. Why are they so afraid? The child has to conform to the rules. It is so sad how everyone is running around chasing their tales being busy with everyone else’s business. Does the yeshiva want to know if the outwardly “kosher” parents cheat on their taxes? Take off their yarmulka when in the presence of goyish business associates, act differently on vacation where Hashem does NOT exist (Miami, Hawaii, Caribbean, etc.) after all, how does that influence their children???????? What about the administration themselves? Are they perfect beyond scrutiny?
Give me a break, this is the hypocrisy the kids see and are turned off by. Not only the kids that are affected by but other kids who see it and are disgusted by it. It is just plain “stinkin thinkin”.