Bnos Penina, a girls school in Lakewood, has informed parents that it will no longer be able to operate in its current location after Wednesday, February 18, and instructed families not to send students beginning Thursday, February 19.
According to the letter, administrators said the school has struggled to remain financially viable after parents’ commitments to provide additional support and maintain current tuition payments were not fully met.
“Had tuition obligations been maintained as agreed, we would not be in this position today,” the administration wrote.
The administration said the challenges were compounded by prolonged periods of sub-freezing temperatures earlier this winter, which increased operating and maintenance costs.
The school also disclosed that its landlord had notified administrators that the building would no longer be available for use after this week, leaving the school without a location to continue classes.
Despite efforts over recent months to secure funding and explore alternative solutions, the administration said it was unable to find a sustainable path forward.
“After much effort, many conversations, and every possible attempt to find a sustainable path forward, we have reached the painful conclusion that we will not be able to continue,” the letter stated.
School leaders said the decision followed consultation with Torah authorities and was made after extensive deliberation.
“It is our sincere hope that our wonderful and loyal parents will step forward in a meaningful and immediate way to make continuation possible,” the administration wrote.
why do you need a big building??????????????????????????????????????? and to pay for the big building its on the parents??????? how about getting a smaller building or trailers and making a decent school without the nice museum show?????
This school rents a small building, maybe get at least one fact right before sounding off .
Maybe instead of people making weddings in Morocco….
Um… the baal simcha of the wedding in morocco is one of the biggest baalei tzedakah to have ever existed
The “people” making weddings in Morocco give massive amounts of tzedakah already. Why is it their personal responsibility to keep a random school in Lakewood open?
That individual is actively supporting many institutions, throughout the entire Jewish world!
Your comments are immature and uncalled for. You don’t have the moral authority to pass judgement. People who are contributing beyond their direct responsibility are entitled to enjoy their wealth. They don’t need your approval.
Assuming you have no relationship to this institution… did you write a check??
Binyomin
100% it’s not the responsibility of Mr scheiner to support this specific school. But when the local ballabatim see weddings being made on this scale (with the endorsement of all the various roshei yeshiva who were there), don’t you think it has an influence? Isn’t the bar being set even higher, in an already ridiculous market, and the money that some of these people could be using to pay for their own childrens tuition, (not even talking about other donors), is instead being spent on other over the top expenses?
It looks like the building is only the right door . The sign is only there .
no that is incorrect
If a school needs to be bailed out financially every few months then it’s NOT a money issue rather a Management issue. It’s time this school shuts down for good!
Where do you propose we send the hundreds of girls currently enrolled there? Every other school says they are full and can’t take anyone else. Unless you have a deep pocket and a heart that wants to help out, maybe think before you comment.
And maybe it is indeed a money issue, people are struggling and can’t pay tuition.
I would love to hear which “daas torah” they consulted to close doors on students with one day notice. Every school struggles financially. They are just using manipulative tactics to get more money from parents. My granddaughter is crying at home” no high school will accept me”. Shes an eighth grader and registration is after pesach.
Keep in mind that there are precious neshamas that will suffer because this school will close, This is what people should focus on and if for whatever reason the school should not remain open then it should close at the end of the school year giving the parents a chance to find another school and a commitment by the other schools to accept these students.
I think they close every month
They asked daas Torah?? What a joke! What an easy thing to say. How about you tell everyone who you asked so you establish some degree of achrayus for such an outrageous decision. For all we know your daas Torah is yourself and you never asked anyone. But how will anyone ever know?? And I’ll take this one step further. How we publish the names of the decision makers here so everyone knows to never trust them again. All the bad guys always hide behind lashon hara and they go about hurting Klal Yisroel again and again. Enough. PLEASE PUBLISH THE NAMES!!
‘I would love to hear which “daas torah” they consulted”
Should they consult the Daas Torah that raised tens on millions of dollars in Lakewood to send to Eretz Yisroel?
B”H
Maybe there’s a shuttered public school building not too far away that a deal can be worked out with quickly, IY”H.
A school should have a board of directors. One for financial overview, one supervising chinuch. One looking for revenue. from outside sources. It takes a team approach. My gut feeling tells me , that this is not the case.
After all said and done, why don’t we, responsible people, chip in and bring the school back in shape?
How much money do they need already?
All it’s going cost many is one less vacation in Florida, or one less fancy vort!
But think what you will be able to say up there!
Bli neder I pledge first $180.
מי להשם – אלי!
And if you don’t have – if you stand in Satmar or go through your shul – you will get 180$ in 1 hour!
גדול הַמְעַשֶה יותר מן העושה
You will get even more s’char!
The parents should get together and form a committee that oversees the school.
They should raise the money, but the ‘administration’ no longer has carte blanche.
This will ensure that nobody ends up raising money for a building, then sells it and pockets the money.
Das Torah? use Das Parents..!!!!! send those kids to Public school and you see how fast Das Torah will work….
Thanks to 3 askanim that worked tirelessly ever since the Email came out, the school is opening tomorrow with just one day gap. They are ensuring that the school will be run in a financially responsible way with others Overseeing the monetary aspect of running the school.