By COLlive reporter
While their school has yet to begin the fall term due to financial difficulties, students of 12th grade of Beis Rivkah are studying today at an alternative location.
The girls have gathered at the Levi Yitzchok Library on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights to learn with renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Manis Friedman from 10 am to 12 pm on Thursday.
The students received word from their principal Mrs. Sheindel Teichtel about the alternative learning schedule, which will take place again tomorrow, a student said.
As of Thursday morning, the school’s principals have still not announced a start date for the flagship Crown Heights girls school for the upcoming fall semester.
Teachers and principals have notified the school’s administration that they will not be returning to the classrooms until they are paid for salaries long overdue.
Members of the school’s new board of directors have said they will be meeting with the school’s principals Thursday morning to discuss the opening of the school and “will guarantee that they will be paid up.”
And speechless!
Good Job, Smart Girls!
if you would want the teacher to teach your kid then why would she want 5-$10 watching your kid for the whole day?
Find alternate locations for every grade. And send teachers to teach, even if there are a lot of girls in each grade. So what? It will be like Bais Medrash style learning, and let parents pay $5-10 per kid per day give the money streight to the teacher,
It was also 11th grade…
I don’t work in Bais Rivkah or even live in Crown Heights but I worked for a school that owed 6 months of pay checks and so Rosh Chodesh Nissan we informed our principal that we would not be coming back after Pesach until we were paid up….. Isru Chag we were all asked to come to school and meet with the board who promised us to give them a week and 3 months would be paid and that by 4 weeks later all 6 months would be paid. They didn’t want a strike. We naively believed them. After a… Read more »
how about every single student put on uniform and stand out school gates until they open the doors ….give it a day or 2 and I assure u the strike will be over!
It wasn’t just 12th grade, it was 11th grade also.
excellent job great idea keep up the good work go Bais Rifkah 12th graders and go Rabbi Friedman
The teachers did not strike. Same story every year, they get notified that school wont be opening and Beis Rivkah says its because the teachers went on strike. Although I wouldnt blame them if they did, thats not what happened.
My granddaughter is a preschooler at Bais Rivka, I hope they come up with a way to work it up, in the mean while there is no one better than teaching them than our own Rabbi Friedman.
This is beautiful — learning the way it should be. Kol HaKavod to Rabbi M and to the scholars.
” Will guarantee that they will be paid back “.
REALLY? How?. Can’t count how many times this was said before. Teachers are not striking. You can’t expect anything from a worker that you don’t pay. Where do you find people that are so dedicated and invest extra time and materials for their work, and are expected to eat and drink air?
My daughter wishes she could attend. But since both her parents work (like to pay for school tuition and stuff), she is needed to babysit her sisters who are not in school.
maybe this is what 12th grade at Bais Rivka should look like all year!
What a blessing in disguise