The little I know:
“Our mainstream leaders are full of denial and completely blind to the neshamos of these children. They have turned a deaf ear to their cries. They will immorally defend the yeshivos for the persistent rejections imposed on these kids, and there is no yeshiva or community leader that will stand up to insist that the rejection and abusiveness (emotional and physical) must stop”.
How right you are!
I know of one principal of a girls High School in BP, who when he expels a girl, tells her that she is the lowest scum of the earth and that no one can be lower than her, and even public schools wouldnt want her and she should be on medication.
All this from someone who should be a role model. He’s the ideal recipe for kindling interest in Frumkeit. Many people, Rabbonim and Askonim included, are aware of this principal’s behavior and do nothing. No one has been forceful enough to see that this principal begs Mechila from the students he has done this to.
I wonder if boys schools have similar “role models”.
Theres one advantage to this sitch. Said principal is in his seventies and hopefully will retire soon, one way or another.
Theres one disadvantage to this sitch. Unless we take seriously the despicable behavior of principals and the effects, we will have many other young principals who savor the power to rebuke in this style and cause more damage than benefit to these Neshamas.
What do you think should be done with principals like those?
So you say to yourselves, who knows what prompted this principal’s reaction, the principal is human and therefore capable of making mistakes.
This mistake is too far-reaching and long lasting to allow it to recur.