Yossi's Letter in the CJN

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Yossi Adler's letter, published in the CJN:

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Shira Dicker’s analysis of the crises in Jewish education today in her guest voice, “An inconvenient truth about day schools” (Sept. 10), is an interesting and poignant contrast to the rosier picture depicted in “Economy down, tuition subsidy requests up” (Sept. 3). Middle-class parents are, in fact, leaving the private day school system in greater numbers than ever before, leaving behind countless families who continue to suffer in silence and in shame from back breaking, escalating tuition fees. This truth is an “inconvenient” and uncomfortable one for UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and its benefactors, who prefer the “culture of affluence,” showcasing, as they are wont to do, the excessive, concrete monuments of massive building complexes rather than focusing on the steadily mounting and unaffordable tuition fees that burden the rest of us. The growing trend of Jewish families defecting from the day school system should indeed be a wake-up call for us all.

Joseph Y. Adler Toronto