Whatever difficulties Lakewood schools have, it is far far better than the Modern Orthodox towns where their schools refuse to accept anyone who doesn’t agree to pay about $80,000 per year, per student. And will be quick to throw their Jewish children out of school, and force them into public school, if the parent is too far behind on tuition because they can’t keep up with the prodigious and extortionate pricing.
Is there then any wonder that the MO OTD rate, per MO Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, is in the neighborhood of 50% of the MO youth?