In a nutshell, the Yeshiva system is failing us now after a good 3 or 4 decade run simply because the yeshivas are now run by the 2nd generation. When the schools were founded 30 and 50 years ago or more, the founders gave their hearts and souls to the yeshiva. They bent over backwards to parents as their goal was simply to give a torah education to whoever wanted one. Nowadays, the founders are either no longer with us or too old to run the school and the schools are now unfortunately in the hands of their children. These children never had to work a day in their lives. They have always had everything given to them on a silver platter. The goals in yeshivas now are now to keep up the “reputation” of the school, make sure the current administrators have Lexus and fancy summer homes for them and their children.
