Sorry Cherry I missed this last reply (seeing as how the tuition thread has been priority #1 for the last few days)
You are right, my Rov would LOVE to help me and everyone that walks thru his door. But would it be fair of me to ask him to speak on my behalf to a vaad member that will not listen (or worse, be mevazeh) to him?
Sad to say, but that’s what happens sometimes. So to protect his kovod, I would not even ask him to stick his neck out. Unfortunatly, the shul / rebbe I’m aligned with does not have a school that is suitable for my boys, so I had no choice but to go out of the box and deal with the vaad on my own. Luckily, I passed. Not sure what i would have done if I failed. (I guess I would go with school B, but fortunalty it didn’t come to that.
One thing is clear though; from your comment, its pretty much a sure bet you have a terrific realationship with your rov / rebbe and are machshiv torah authority in general. Lucky for us your a CR member to boot!