
A FATHER’S TERROR
Jake suffers from serious learning disabilities. When the pandemic first closed the schools, Jake was given a laptop, but he needed more personal connection. That’s when he was assigned to the special-ed classes.
READ MOREJake suffers from serious learning disabilities. When the pandemic first closed the schools, Jake was given a laptop, but he needed more personal connection. That’s when he was assigned to the special-ed classes.
READ MORETime is not in our favor, stresses BTJ Junior High Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz. “The longer school is closed, the more boys we risk losing. Primarily those in single-parent homes, now more poverty-stricken than ever, are taking odd jobs day and night. Many have stopped even trying to connect to their “remote” lessons. Other students, deprived of friends and activities, are addicted to digital devices. Even normative families are crumbing, with their children tempted by drugs and alcohol. Worse, scores of boys and their families are ill, and many are hungry. There’s no money for food.”
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