“BPT: Parents today are not teaching responsibility to their boys .They go to E:Y with a credit card and the father can tell all his friends that my son is in Brisk or other yeshivos.
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To this, BK Shadchan, you are part right, part wrong.
True, I and my boys are very much a part of the “system”. The boys in EY, jockying for a spot in Brisk, cooling their heels for 12-18 months in another chaburah / yeshiva in the hopes that a spot will open up in AJ, the CC, the dira, the whole bit.
However, I (and several of my friends) are trying very hard to change the status quo. It does not happen overnight, and we are but a few voices screaming against a hurricane of louder, more visible voices.
But we are trying