Beit Shemesh mayor decides to take over whole school
Instead of building a new school for the Haredi girls they misused, they want to take over the whole school building they antagonized before:
The Beit Shemesh municipality has decided to move 150 children from their secular school in the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood to another facility, and turn the school into an ultra-Orthodox one for girls. The city already moved ultra-Orthodox girls to the secular school last year, sparking a controversy.So another act of disrespect's been committed by a corrupt Haredi mayor's staff with no true respect for the better interests of the non-Haredi pupils. Pure disgrace.
The parents of the secular children object to the move, saying the proposed facility is old and requires extensive renovations, as well as being in another part of town, which means they’ll need transportation. The parents’ committee head accused the municipality of “setting the town on fire again.”
[...] In recent weeks the parents said they had reached an agreement with the municipality to move their children to an ultra-Orthodox school with few pupils, located in a new building in a secular area.
But then the city reneged on the agreement and said the secular girls would be moved to Adihu, a school in the old part of town whose infrastructures are faulty, according to the parents.
“During the discussions with municipal officials we submitted a written proposal to relocate the secular school to a Haredi school with few students in a secular area, in a new building that needs no renovation,” said Yaniv Fogel, head of the Beit Shemesh parents committee.
“A week ago we were informed they objected to this plan and want to move the school to an old structure that requires a great deal of money to get it up to a basic standard. It also requires transportation, because it’s difficult to get there. We don’t understand what it’s all about, our proposal was better,” he said.
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