A man over 13 years of age (and a woman over 12 years of age) are responsible for their own actions.
A breath of fesh air here. I was starting to fell pretty stuffy in a roomful of excuses.
In order for mechanchim and hanhala to undergo training, they would have to a) acknowledge that there is a problem and b)go to professional (meaning COLLEGE educated) sources, to get that training.
a)there are problems even if the mechanchim try there utmost to do there best because
1. students can sometimes be unreasonable – unreasonably selfish or unreasonably sensitive
2.mechanchim are human and therefore by definition liable to make mistakes
3. yes there are “mechanchim” that are anything but that and should have any other job than a “mechanech”, but they are the minority.
b) excuse me for coming off rude but this is a joke. Go look at all the public school students into drugs, immorality, girls have such low self-esteem the only area time they feel good is when they get boys attention, loud and rude behaviour, teen pregnancies…Yes,yes we need college educated mechanchim. Yes, of course more social workers, psycologists…Ahem.
Now look at the majority of BY type and Chassidishe school and yeshiva students. Most are aidel, with good middos, they are light years ahead of those with secular upbringing.
Are there issues in frum mosdos that need a tikkun? YES, definitely. There are issues that need to be corrected. But applying an infected bandaid will only make issues worse.