Rockland Writes: We Cannot Stay Silent While 330 Children Are Left Without a School

As known to many, this week, Bnos Derech Yisroel closed its doors, leaving over 330 children without a school to attend. These innocent kids are now "on the street," facing uncertainty and instability. Yet, shockingly, the response from our community has been nothing short of apathetic. We are going about our daily routines as if nothing significant has occurred. This is an outrage and a profound failure of our communal responsibilities.
The impact on these students and their families is devastating, and yet, Klal Yisroel remains disturbingly silent. Where is the outcry? Where is the communal support? The absence of emergency meetings and immediate action to resolve this dire situation is a betrayal of our values. These children are our future, and right now, they are being neglected and abandoned.
We have always prided ourselves on our sense of community and responsibility towards one another. Yet now, when our children are most in need, our silence is deafening. Currently, there are no emergency meetings, no calls for action, no sleepless nights over the future of these 330 souls. How can we, as a community, accept this?
To remain silent and inactive is to be complicit in this neglect. These children are left without direction, without the stability of their education, and without the nurturing environment they depend on. Each day that passes without a solution is a day of lost potential and growing anxiety for these families. This is not just an educational crisis; it is a communal failure.
We must demand immediate action. We must insist that our leaders, our רבנים, take this issue with the utmost seriousness. Emergency meetings should be convened, plans should be drawn, and resources should be mobilized. This is a time for unity and action, not complacency and apathy.
Let us not forget the values that bind us together. Our children deserve better, and we must not rest until they have a school to return to. Let us raise our voices and let us prove that Klal Yisroel does not abandon its own in times of need.
Stand up. Speak out. Act now.
A parent with a few children at home, deprived of school today, tomorrow, and uncertain days ahead
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