Thank you all for visiting! The purpose of this blog is to facilitate a dialogue among Bergen County Day School parents, administrators, teachers and community leaders about how to run Yeshiva day schools in a manner that will be sustainable and will provide a high quality Torah and secular education for our children.
I want to thank 200K Chump for all of his hard work in facilitating an online dialogue on these issues for the past year and a half. I often disagreed strongly with what he said but I really do credit him with changing the conversation about Yeshivas in our area. While there has always been discussion among administrators, Board Members and trustees about trying to keep the Day School model sustainable, the voices of hundreds of anonymous blogging parents really convinced school administrators to make some drastic changes. Those voices also created an atmosphere that allowed for the creation of Yeshivat He’atid. Donors reading about how dire the situation was were convinced to support the new model. Parents who otherwise would not have heard about the school were informed about what was going on and became interested.
This is not to take anything away from the hard work done by founders of He’atid who are truly doing a wonderful service to the community. Nor is it a slight against the more traditional schools, their faculty, administration or Board. While I think there are some bad apples at every school, for the most part we are all working towards the same goal.
I want to thank 200K Chump for all of his hard work in facilitating an online dialogue on these issues for the past year and a half. I often disagreed strongly with what he said but I really do credit him with changing the conversation about Yeshivas in our area. While there has always been discussion among administrators, Board Members and trustees about trying to keep the Day School model sustainable, the voices of hundreds of anonymous blogging parents really convinced school administrators to make some drastic changes. Those voices also created an atmosphere that allowed for the creation of Yeshivat He’atid. Donors reading about how dire the situation was were convinced to support the new model. Parents who otherwise would not have heard about the school were informed about what was going on and became interested.
This is not to take anything away from the hard work done by founders of He’atid who are truly doing a wonderful service to the community. Nor is it a slight against the more traditional schools, their faculty, administration or Board. While I think there are some bad apples at every school, for the most part we are all working towards the same goal.
On a personal note, I have interests in both He'atid and traditional Day Schools. I hope they all succeed and I am not planning to shill for any particular school. Some of you who know me may be able to figure out who I am from the things I say but I ask that if you do figure it out you will keep it to yourself. Emotions sometimes run high & I don’t need someone confronting me in person about something said on this blog.
I am new at blog administration and would welcome any comments and/or suggestions about how it should be moderated. If you want your comment off-line, you can email me at YeshivaDad@gmail.com.I will try to come up with new posts every week or so, as time allows. I will not allow comments that slander people by name or that are wildly off-topic. If I see a lot of name calling I will have to start deleting posts that do it, or at least take that part out of the comment. Other than that I will try to stay pretty hands-off.
Let’s all try to be respectful of one another’s opinions and remember that we are role models to our children and we should behave in a manner that we would expect them, as B’nei and B’not Torah to act.
I am new at blog administration and would welcome any comments and/or suggestions about how it should be moderated. If you want your comment off-line, you can email me at YeshivaDad@gmail.com.I will try to come up with new posts every week or so, as time allows. I will not allow comments that slander people by name or that are wildly off-topic. If I see a lot of name calling I will have to start deleting posts that do it, or at least take that part out of the comment. Other than that I will try to stay pretty hands-off.
Let’s all try to be respectful of one another’s opinions and remember that we are role models to our children and we should behave in a manner that we would expect them, as B’nei and B’not Torah to act.
