tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post8271780518893414785..comments2024-02-23T04:39:49.329-05:00Comments on Conversations in Klal: When Did This Begin?ProfKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-72654265686950715232009-08-31T14:01:09.066-04:002009-08-31T14:01:09.066-04:00Very sad. A list of what schools are and aren'...Very sad. A list of what schools are and aren't paying, what the current delays are, whether checks are bouncing, etc. Would be very helpful.<br /><br />I wonder if anyone could put together such a list based on info from teachers and administrators submitting the info anonymously.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-19900812944876504002009-08-31T00:55:40.247-04:002009-08-31T00:55:40.247-04:00I remember when my cousin taught in the Beth Jacob...I remember when my cousin taught in the Beth Jacob school in Philadelphia (yes, Beth Jacob, not Bais Yaakov)in the late 70's & early 80's and the teachers were asked to teach for the love of Torah instead of their pay checks. Then some weeks the teachers would get pay checks, but only those who got to the bank first were able to cash them, because the school did not have funds in its account to cover the checks it issued.<br />Shortly after the school closed and its furnishings disappeared and the seforim and school records were left in the building to rot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-6436338853701353152009-08-30T10:15:30.403-04:002009-08-30T10:15:30.403-04:00I was teaching in one of those RW girls yeshivas i...I was teaching in one of those RW girls yeshivas in the early 80s when one month we didn't get a paycheck. We teachers were in real shock. Somehow (they never told us how) they got us checks one week later. Everyone who found out about this was furious--how can a school not pay its teachers! halacha demands that they get paid. <br /><br />Little by little other stories about other yeshivas who were delaying paychecks came out. <br /><br />So yes you are right that this is not something new, except maybe that there are so many schools who are now doing this. So the question is why no one back then worried that the way of doing business was going to cause even bigger problems down the road.Faygienoreply@blogger.com