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hello everyone. i rarely comment on these kinds of things but someone needs to separate emotions from facts as this is pretty nasty smear stuff.

shame on gan minim, not rjc. gan miriam was founded at HIR, it is named for rabbi weiss's mother. when hir decided to unceremoniously kick out the gan it was because hir was building a bigger space. and so, gan miriam moved to roc 10 years ago. at that time the school had 75-100 students spanning daycare-like to 2 year to 5 year olds.

however over the course of the past ten years, gan miriam administration let the school languish down to less than 25 children. shame on you gan miriam. meanwhile, according tho the presentation many of us heard, gan miriam was paying rjc a small % of revenue (tuition) as a fee to use the building. hello? the gan was not even covering costs for lights, air conditioning, heating, wear and tear on the building, bathroom supplies and so on.

so who deserves the blame? the gan. shame on the director and the administration for watching sar, wta, westchester day, etc. and ,many schools around it pop up and they did nearly nothing to maintain, let alone grow, enrollment. the most gan did was post flyers inside rjc. that is not marketing when you advertise to your existing base. shame on gan miriam for seeing the decline over several years and doing nothing. shame on them for not telling their parents.

shame on the gan for taking advantage of a synagogue and running it at a loss. of course this looks bad for rjc, but the alternative was worse. perhaps the short notice was unfair, granted, but it was unethical for the gan admin to not tell parents the financial state it was in. it was immoral for them not to disclose to its teachers. it was bury-head-in-sand mentality to think they could keep the free ride on rjc which they know quite well was not doing well financially. it is unforgivable for the gan to pay roughly $25000 per year in rent when it was using many times over that cost in rjc space and utilities. according to the presentation made by the board at an rjc meeting the new school will bring in 25 times that in rent plus an additional six-figure payment for utilities. how is this even close to comparable?

now set aside the financials and just look at the dwindling enrollment at gan miriam. why? outdated programming. not keeping up with community trends. not keeping an eye on competition. and to blame rjc? ridiculous. fact its stranger than fiction. shame on gan miriam. why not go back to hir and see what their administration says about you running a school at a massive loss and force hir to eat the costs?

like many in riverdale, we feel it is shame on riverdale press for printing such a biased piece of sensationalistic news. it is sad that jews feel the need to air dirty laundry in public. this is the aftermath of when rich jews have too much time on their hands. give charity and be humble, instead of arrogance and bullying.

(i am sure there will be replies to this posting, but i have no intentions of replying. )

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