Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy is the only Orthodox elementary school in Los Angeles who admits troubled kids. Other yeshivos don’t want the aggravation. <\/p>\n
So let’s say you let in a hyper-active kid who creates a lot of tsures (trouble). What about the impact this has on other kids? On disrupting the learning environment?<\/p>\n
These are tough choices a school must make. I don’t envy the leaders.<\/p>\n
Yavneh gets to maintain very high standards because it knows that kids who don’t get in can go to Hillel. If there weren’t a Hillel around, Yavneh would have to relax its standards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy is the only Orthodox elementary school in Los Angeles who admits troubled kids. Other yeshivos don’t want the aggravation. So let’s say you let in a hyper-active kid who creates a lot of tsures (trouble). What … Continue reading