Friday, July 09, 2004
Over $250,000.00 in Government funds retracted from Yeshiva Yesode Hatorah, Vien, Williamsburg
Over a quarter of a million dollars in Government grants that were promised to Viener Cheder in Williamsburg were snatched away from them after the Yeshiva had laid out already large amounts. The Yeshiva was promised the moneys to buy a new building for their pre-school and to hire teachers. However, after the building had been purchased and the teachers were hired, the Government retracted their funding claiming it was due to the fact that the school was to be for boys only. Though the Government does routinely provide funding even for boys-only schools, they claim this case was different since the school would include a pre-kindergarten class which the Government claims would not benefit from being separate and therefore does not deserve funding. I guess it's not enough that we pay taxes to support the public schools, don't use the public school system, provide the city with better educated individuals but we also don't deserve Governmental subsidies for our better run, more successful private schools just because our beliefs don't conform with their studies.
Over a quarter of a million dollars in Government grants that were promised to Viener Cheder in Williamsburg were snatched away from them after the Yeshiva had laid out already large amounts. The Yeshiva was promised the moneys to buy a new building for their pre-school and to hire teachers. However, after the building had been purchased and the teachers were hired, the Government retracted their funding claiming it was due to the fact that the school was to be for boys only. Though the Government does routinely provide funding even for boys-only schools, they claim this case was different since the school would include a pre-kindergarten class which the Government claims would not benefit from being separate and therefore does not deserve funding. I guess it's not enough that we pay taxes to support the public schools, don't use the public school system, provide the city with better educated individuals but we also don't deserve Governmental subsidies for our better run, more successful private schools just because our beliefs don't conform with their studies.
Comments:
well this news must have come as a great blow to a yeshiva in williamsburg, a neighborhood where million dollar houses, italian furniture, persian rugs, and enough silver to make anyone go blind, is considered respectable. where men spend their days figuring out how to swindel the government out of their next million and women spend thier time figuring out how to spend that money. naturally these people would never dream of paying taxes or deal honestly in business as far as the goverment is concerned. but if the governement decides it is unable to fund thier private school in which English is not even on the curriculum suddenly there is an outcry because "they dont deseve governmental subsidies."
mi ke amcha yisroel
mi ke amcha yisroel
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: July 19, 2004 5:55 PM
: July 19, 2004 5:55 PM
bottom line is they don't pay taxes! it must have come as a huge blow to the yeshiva!i say it's about time!
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