The following is via TLS:
Parents with children in all of Lakewood’s Mosdos are being strongly urged to participate in the upcoming carpooling drill, which Askonim and Roshei Yeshivah are strongly supporting.
As it stands, the current BOE budget does not cover transportation for students, if they live within a 2 ½ mile radius.
Through numerous meetings that took place the past 2 weeks, an idea was formulated to have the drill which will have all parents send their children to school without BOE transportation whereby simulating what a morning would look like without any bus transportation. The goal of the drill is to prepare parents, students, township and emergency personnel on what a typical day without transportation would look like.
The following is the text of a letter being sent home today to all parents with children in Lakewood’s Mosdos:
“A letter was delivered to the Lakewood Township, giving them ample time to mobilize their resources to facilitate a best case scenario under the circumstances. The planned drill has the aThe planned drill has the approval of the Rosh Yeshiva R Malkiel and Gedolei Roshei Hayeshiva of America Shlit”a.”
“Therefore, we ask all parents to cooperate with us by not using bus transportation the morning of Wednesday, June 11th and Thursday, June 12th. The drill does not include yours transportation home from school. We recognize the inconvenience that this will cause, however without bus transportation this will be the norm unless a better solution is found. There will be obvious delays because of the traffic, however we feel that the end will justify the means- and through our hishtadlus a more viable option will come from it.”
PLEASE NOTE:
** The drill is only taking place for the morning bus routes- Schools will start at 9:00am.
** All school employees will not be expected to be on time the morning of June 11th and 12th. In addition, BMG has notified us that it will cancel their shmiras sedarim for those mornings as well.
**We also respectfully request all employers to allow some lee way in regards to their usual starting time.
“The only way to continue this momentum is to have the cooperation of all parents and not send their children on the bus this Wednesday and Thursday. Please don’t separate yourself form the tzibur by sending your child on the bus whereby weakening the effect of the drill. The drill will only be that, if it represents what a day would look like without bus transportation. The way for you to help, is by cooperating these two days and we hope that at least a short term and ultimately a long term solution will come as a result of our efforts.”
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15 Responses
does primary to 3rd grade also have to be part of the drill? there not losing busing next year.
Here before us is proof of the fact that the concept of having frum elected officials on the Township and Education Boards is a mistake. Had there been only non-Jews on these boards (acting on our behalf with us behind the scenes)our community would be able to demand a proportionate return for our tax dollars.
We would be able to demand that the public schools conduct audits to ascertain where every parent lives and if their homes are approved places of residence per the inspection department. There would be careful checking to see who is an illegal immigrant (immediately reported to the ICE and deported) and who is occupying illegal residences in the township. The number of enrolled Mexican children would plummet!
But since our own frum people occupy the seats of power they cannot do things which will be called ‘racist’ and ‘discriminatory’.
Furthermore, we need to identify every Jewish owned residence which is being rented to Mexicans. These landlords are costing us millions by squeezing multiple families in to dilapidated (ie. otherwise unrentable) units. Each child (and there can be ten or more in a single apartment) is costing us over $10,000 a year. Force the illegal immigrants out and we will save millions.
Instead of public bussing we should establish a credit for each student which will be used to pay for a Kehila run program which will cost a fraction of the public school contracted company. We would stagger school openings to allow the same buses to service multiple schools. We would group schools by location allowing the bus that does pick up in a particular neighborhood to service multiple schools instead of every single school needing to send buses to every single neighborhood.
To enroll all of our children in the public schools is a tactic unworthy of the city and a denial of our galus status. Let’s be smart and work in the background to accomplish our goals as shtadlanim have done for so many years.
What will happen if chas v’shalom Hatzolah is on a call and gets delayed because of all the traffic?
lakewood home of the entitlement. lakewood yeshiva cancels morning seder, try to get them to go to support israel and they will tell you its bitul torah, dont worry this is all leshem shamayim, like the rally against the draft, chilul hashem no problem as long as its for a hephsed merubah. can somebody tell me what an askan is, is that someone who sits all day and comes up with ways to create problems that are not there, how about getting a job during those hours. rav yossi was a shoemaker, but then i guess he did not drive a 2014 lexus.
To #2:
You’re making sense, and the “thought police” wont allow it.
Spoiled brats. What will happen if you have to pay for transportation like all of our Jewish brothers in Brooklyn do????????????????
It looks like the askanim of the Lakwood/BMG crowd are taking their direction from the ehrliche governor of New Jersey–create traffic havoc and hope your political opponents take notice. As another poster (No. 3) so accurately noted, if c’v there is some tragedy from a delay in emergency response vehicles or ambulance, than these roshei yeshiva will be sued for a gazillion dollars and rightfully so.
I’m confused by the naysayers attitude. This is a drill, a simulation of what will happen if the bus system is shut down. If it causes “traffic havoc” then it shows there will be this same traffic havoc each and every morning in the future if the town’s plans go ahead.
I live in a town (London) where there is no subsidised or free school transport and parents have to waste their working day and money buying massive cars to shlep other people’s kids around in car pool (or rota, as we call it).
Godolhadorah, according to your logic next year if there is a hatzolah call on any school day the State of NJ can be sued for not providing buses.
Read… This is a drill. A test run. To Avi732 what would happen if next year there was no bussing? Hatzalah C’V would have it hard all the time. This is just a drill to show that the bussing is a huge help. Please people, read the article twice before you comment. To Gadolhadorah how can you even suggest that a Rosh Yeshiva get sued? This will be everyday traffic next year if busses
are out. And also, most of your comment are very negative. Why are you so angry?
It is not an accurate or fair simulation. If and when the bus service is pulled, there will be car pools which means there will be four or five kids in the car. Not one child per car as will be the case on Wednesday and Thursday. That means there will be 4 or 5 times more amount of traffic on the road then the real deal .
oh puleeeeze!! Thousands of other parents living in other cities across the U.S. have to carpool. Yes its hard!! We have to schedule our work hours around it, leave our other kids with neighbors, drive down narrow roads on snowy days as we skid and slide, stop in front of homes while traffic backs up behind us honking away and devote hours and hours weekly to carpool. But we do it!! How spoiled are you in Lakewood that as soon as you even hear the word you’re all throwing tantrums!! Welcome to real life in any city outside N.Y.and carpool is the name of the game. Instead of whining and kvetching and threatening to block traffic throughout Lakewood do what the rest of us do. Every single person does not need to drive their kids to school. That’s ludicrous. Do what the rest of us do and either form a carpool or pay for a bus!! We all have to either shoulder the expense of a bus or pay for a bigger car and higher gas bills. But we do it!! and life goes on!! We don’t all just get into a car and drive every kid to school! Of course then traffic would be snarled up for hours! If you’re big enough to be a parent you’re big enough to think of other ways to get your kids to school besides driving them all yourselves every day. Maybe you’ll get courtesy busing back but if chas v’shalom, chas v’chalila you don’t and you have to actually experience mesiras nefesh for the chinuch of your kids, you’ll manage like the rest of your fellow brethren across the fruited plain. You’ll survive, I promise. Now quit whining and start forming carpools just in case:))
4. Where do you see that BMG cancelled morning seder? Your diatribe shows you are nebach FAR removed from any decent yeshiva.
Furthermore, where do you come off saying they don’t support the medina? Doesn’t BMG have a branch in yerushalayim? Don’t they daven for EY and Yerushaylaim three times a day? I will say thats more times than these leftists do! You are a fool for thinking they don’t support ERETZ YISROEL.
7. Have you ever been to Lakewood? I will bet that you haven’t so please do everyone, especially yourself a favor, and mach tzi di pisk! I guarantee you that if chv needed, the ambulance will make thru.
godolhadorah what do you have against roshei yeshiva?? which one chucked you from his yeshiva
Lakewood – welcome to the real world! In cities like Passaic and Baltimore, there has never been school busing. Carpools to multiple schools are a way of life. Get used to it!