The New York state Supreme Court ordered a girls school in Monsey, Bais Chinuch Ateres Bnos, to close down.
The court sided with the town of Ramapo, who filed a lawsuit stating the school has been operating on Route 306 without a certificate of occupancy since September 2017.
News 12 reports the school was previously cited for overcrowding classrooms, using milk crates to hold up air conditioners, for holes in the walls, broken desks and blocked exits.
The school claims its application for a certificate of occupancy has been delayed and that there are no immediate threats to students’ safety.
There is no word as to when the town will close down the school.
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such a kiddush HaShem; who deserves the credit?
Sure they are being closed they didn’t comply with the rules!
Story and headline don’t match. Court merely said that it can be closed; the court did not order its closing.
They didn’t close the “school” according to your article, they ordered the school not to use that particular building. The school is free to keep operating elsewhere. Closing a school would raise all sorts of legal and comstitutional issues, whereas closing a building for code (and health and safety) violations is a mere issue of municipal “police” powers (quite annoying to the school’s management, but not anissue that goes to a higher court – you did mention that the New York Supreme Court is a “lower” court, the Court of Appeals is the “supreme” court in New York).
The mere continuance of these violations by the school officials is reason enough to dig deeper in how the schools are. Ie education, lunchroom cleanliness, how students are disciplined and more etc.
dina da malchusa: dina!
Why are there such frequent stories about frum Yeshivos and summer camps being shut down or cited for building code, health and safety violations. Of course, there is an element of anti-Semitism in some cases but many more are clearly firetraps and health hazards that should never have been allowed to operate. Whats even more crazy are the parents who knowingly allow their children to attend these schools and camps notwithstanding the sakanas nefesh implicit in their actions.