zahavasdad:
I appreciate your recognition. You’re correct, there are many in similar positions. However, let’s examine this from a different angle. Running a yeshiva is a business. There is an employer and there are employees. There is a hierarchy of authority and responsibility. There is also a mission, and there should be a structure that enables the mission to be accomplished. Now here is where there is a parting. There is always a mission that is stated in altruistic terms, full of spirituality, full of Torah value, full of a vision of being the yeshiva that is pivotal in the continuation of Torah. No one ever announces at the fund raising dinners how many students were denied admission, how many were expelled, and just how many former students are now struggling with getting into other yeshivos now that they have a history of being thrown out, and how many of their former talmidim are rejecting Shabbos, kashrus, and shmiras mitzvos. Funny that these numbers appear nowhere when there are efforts to solicit funds.
All I am saying is that financial issues are the business part of the yeshiva, and needs to stay there. Once we allow issues of dollars to influence the spiritual responsibilities, such as leaving a child to the influences of the street because of money, we have an ethical and moral problem here. And I question the honesty of the yeshiva when they portray themselves as having these lofty missions when there are neshamos that are sentenced to the street.