Shailos U'Teshuvos: Principals: Rabbi Hillel David '09

In this session, Rabbi David answeed questions from principals and the following topics were discussed:

• Issues of severance pay.
• Issue of Yeshiva Gedolas' faher and acceptance schedule which negatively impacts eighth grade class time and learning.
• A local JCC will pen a preschool if the dayschool won't accept non-Jewish kids and this would ruin the frum school's program because they have few kids and hardly any funding.
• Is requiring uniforms a benefit in upper grades?
• Parents an a school are very lenient regarding elemntary age students coming late or missing class frequently for family simchas, trips, etc. Should administration get involved and lay out rules.
• What responsibility does a school have to take in a student with a known behavioral problem?
• How to protect rebbeim against false allegations of abuse.
• In terms of a shaila about policies, should you just follow the principal or ask gedolim.
• What should a principal do when a parent is verbally abusive to a teacher-should they get involved and how?
• Teaching Derech Eretz in schools.
• Is it ethical for a yeshiva to pay the rebbe a small salary thereby forcing him to rely on government aid?
• How to deal with the situation of having a very learning disabled student whom the school cannot service properly but the parents don't want to send him to a different school.
• In an out of town school where most kids aren't frum, can there be no grades or tests for limudei kodesh so as to encourage more learning lishmah.
• Issue of students davening at correct zman.
• Issue with single girls (teachers) who get engaged in the middle of the year and leave.