Rockland County, NY – In response to being hit with a new lawsuit at Tuesday night’s meeting, East Ramapo school board President Yehuda Weissmandil fired back Wednesday, calling the suit “ironic” and scolding that the new suit will only serve to increase “the very legal fees they are complaining about.”
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LOHUD.com (http://lohud.us/1M4JRSj) reports that Weissmandi called the timing of the parent-led lawsuit “ironic” in that the board just last month made the cost-cutting decision to switch from a Long Island-based legal team to a New York City law firm in order to save on travel expenses.
“It will only siphon off resources that could be used for school programs,” Weissmandi said.
Is the chilul hashem they’re making worth the money?
dont do the crime if you cant pay the fine.
It is also of note that one of the people serving the papers publicly called the Board of Ed members Pontius Pilate and Nazis.
This is a hateful, anti Semitic vendetta.
Time for the Yidden to back off and elect people who will work for the budget the same way. Enough with the chillel hashem
The board is also being sued personally which will cost each one a lot of money since the insurance company will not pay for their suits. Probably a good idea to resign now. I wouldn’t want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of my own gelt. A lot more civil suits are being drawn up. Just give the kids art, science, foreign languages, and music and remove the black mold from the ceilings and everyone will be happy.
The Board members like all governmental officials are covered for all reasonable legal fees. So if it takes a million dollars for each board member to defend themselves it would come out of the District’s budget… This suit may prevent the state from appointing a school monitor unless the state want to get involved in the case.. Because once the state is evolved they will have to say in court why they are under funding the district.
These kids get everything they need plus. There is no mold in there buildings, they have beautiful and spacious classrooms with big play areas and some even have gardens and pets.
You can lead the horse to water but you can’t make them drink and a lot of kids there have no desire to learn. Whoever wants to learn does and whoever doesn’t won’t even if you give them every extra curricular activity out there.
My kids get one thing and one thing only and that is buses and that too is a nightmare. No way to track where the kids are and if your kids are late coming home you shiver to think who they are on the bus with.
Plenty a kid has been dropped off nowhere near their home and had to walk home alone.
If a kid wants to learn they can learn just fine with what they get. This is pure anti-semitism that is sadly supported by yiden.
If anything was cut they should complain to the state to give them more money, not spend their time on stupid lawsuits and protests.
They should enroll all the frum kids into public school, to show everyone the cost involved, if the system had to absorb all of these kids.
Boo-hoo. In a responsible elected position, one of your jobs is to develop at least some degree of consensus. They’ve invited these lawsuits with their confrontational and likely illegal behavior, and deserve whatever it costs them personally. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the fire, and leave big responsibilities to mature adults who come to the position with a basic understanding of civics.
Here it is not the State suing the board but a private citizen group . The board’s legal expenses are covered by taxpayer funds, the Board of Ed’s Budget.. What the Board should do is.reallocate say one million dollars per board member for legal defense l fees. taking these funds from the public school operating budget . At $9 million that will mean the public school will lose of 90 teaching positions resulting in larger classes. The legal fees could still be reasonable but you have to estimate what the legal cost for each board member will be.for the balance of this year including future suits..