LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — The system for girls’ acceptance into High Schools, developed nearly two decades ago with the guidance of BMG Mashgiach Rav Matisyahu Salomon, has completely collapsed for this year, leaving parents and schools scrambling.
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The High School Vaad, established to ensure that all girls are placed, sent a letter to parents and schools saying in part: “For the last 18 years we had a system in place, and we had a coordinated approach to High School acceptance. This has fallen apart this year, and girls are being offered High School acceptance with quick ultimatums. For this year, due to these unforeseen circumstances, there is no longer a system.“
The letter added, “To high schools that have been following protocol–schools are currently accepting, and you should do the same and write a essay for me.”
The current Vaad system which has been in place until now oversees a process in which every High School tries to accept girls simultaneously, to ensure every girl has a slot.
According to one Lakewood news source and EssayPay, quoting an unnamed askan, “This year, one school stepped out of the system and accepted girls before the usual time. This had a ripple effect on other schools who scrambled to hold interviews and fill up their enrollment.”
As a result, hundreds of students have reportedly been told they have a slot, yet hundreds more have been left out or have not even been interviewed yet, since under the previous system they still had time before any acceptances were issued.
According to one report, although the Vaad is not operating in official capacity this year, it will nevertheless undertake to assist every girl to be placed.
It’s not clear what pushed one school to undercut the process and jump the gun on its acceptance process.
Why don’t middle schools have partner high schools where the kids go directly after 8th grade? This isn’t college. Why the need to apply and be accepted or rejected?
The system was broken years ago. There are still children from LAST YEAR who are out of school, not yet accepted. Treated like so much garbage because of the snobbery and sinas chinam. Erev Rav controls the Lakewood schools.
Disgusting. I spend the entire year building up my students and the high schools and seminaries undo it in one swoop. One day there will be a din v’chashbon on this appalling practice.
After reading everything going on there I’ve started saying every morning “…..Shelo Asani Lakewooder”
If the schools won’t follow the divrei haposkim, how can you expect the students to do so?
The solution: boycott that HS… the Vaad of it has any power should pasken that no one should go to that HS… within days the prior system will re-appear
FYI: this is a textbook definition of Chilul H’, as opposed to the lack of goyishe approval misdefinition. All the self aggrandizing rashoim who are mistreating our young neshamos will get their eternal punishment.
Always takes one dumb idiot to destroy the process for everyone else !!!
Growing up in Boro Park BC ( before chasidim ) it was Reb Shlomo H., Rabbi Dovid Singer, Chuster Rov, Rabbi M. Sherer, who set policy which was: NO JEW LEFT BEHIND!
Nowadays, the holier than thou chumrah crowd destroy neshomos as long as they can go to eretz kodesh for ALL the yom tovim.
My uncle a close friend of Reb Aron K. said he was told always be humble and think how your actions affect others.
What a shame these poor girls have been out of school for over half a year. They have lost one year of their lives and who’se yo blame
But more importantly what will tie the repercussions be when we are judged by the holy one
Similar story in brooklyn.
why don’t you post my previous post?
why let people say terrible things and besmirch a system when they don’t understand anything
anyone that knows anything in lakewood understands that it is a very simple issue, there are not enough schools, right now there are 300 girls more than the schools can handle
instead of letting people rant, use this to help start more schools
I think time lubavitch opens a high school there , that would solve the problem
Why can’t there be neighborhood schools. You go to the yeshiva that is closest to where you live. Would that not reduce the stress and competition that is so harmful to young adolescents?
On another site I read there was one person on the Vaad who was undermining the whole operation so they closed as a result.
Simple solution:
Close the one school that violated the unspoken agreement. Permanently barred.
Create a poison pill written agreement and all schools sign, conditional to financial ruin if they violate.
What school
Happened on a small scale among Long Island/Queens girls schools a few years ago. School administrators were pretty steamed.
There is always one school that has to jump in with acceptances, usually they are new and want to grab better candidates early. It is disgraceful. There is a school in Monsey that did the same thing this year. Made sure to send acceptance letters and required a hefty deposit and answer before the other schools release their acceptances, which is coordinated.
I’m sure they have the haskama of TAG and all the anti Chumash signatories. עתידין ליתן את הדין
open more schools
The problem stems from the establishment.Shloma yehuda rechnitz was right, and was booted from lakewood after trying to help.
Our out of town Jewish community is just 2 hours from NY and has an amazing Beis Yaakov type girls highs school that would be thrilled to have new girls. Do yourselves and your girls a favor and move out of town! Tuition is also probably 50% less and no one cares about brand names
if you’ve got loans of $$$$$$ no matter how you got it (fraud or not) you’re won’t have any problems finding a mosod for your children. you’re accepted…
if you are a pious Jew but don’t have wads of cash, them Hashem watches over you…..good luck
because we… don’t care about money… we are Torah Jews!!!!!
I’m not from Lakewood so this all sounds gibberish with no context
I wonder out loud. I see in our publications ads showing Rabbi A Kotler CEO at high roller vacation getaways in various locations.
Is this teaching our schools to act more like businesses than as mosdos Hatorah?
If instead our schools were run, motivated and directed only by daas Torah, would this enrollment issue disappear?
Could someone please explain:
What are the “anti-Chumash signatories”?
How can a Jewish school be “anti-Chumash”?
Sounds like the vaad is skirting THEIR responsibilities and engaging in collective punishment. Is the vaad like FJCC self appointed machers ?
The biggest issue not discussed so far is grades. I see everyone knock that it’s all about money but that’s baloney. It’s more about grades and the weaker students suffer. That’s the greatest issue. Every school needs to be forced to take x% of low grade students too.
Time for another beating from Rechnitz. MAKE LAKEWOOD GREAT AGAIN!
Here we grow again.
Obviously this is the fault of the public schools…