We’re 2 months into the school year, & kids are still home with no school placement —what can we do?

You know, let's put out your name and number and you're like not so excited about put your name in the public, but as you're you're the right person to reach out And that's why I'm here because I feel the true picture. Got it. Okay. got out there. People should understand a little bit the broader picture, what the problem is, what we could do to make it a little bit easier. I'm going to explain myself quickly cuz I don't want to hold everybody up. This is the picture. We're going to focus on reality. I made some notes over here so I could get to the point. And they're all good people. They're all good friends of mine. They work very hard. They're overloaded with stress. Mention Zai mentioned they don't they don't have they don't have night and they don't have day. They have financial pressure and they have inschool pressure as well. It's the worst job in the world by far and anybody that wants to do it should do it. Don't knock them. They're working hard. Number two, Lakewood had tremendous growth over the last 10 years on how this grew. Moisters didn't grow just a drop of what the people grew. So automatically we have a problem. Number three is there's a whole new uh concept of diversity in Lakewood. It's all over the place. And as it becomes all over the place, we need to have moisters that address all the different types. It's not going to work the cookie cutter type of mo that's good for everybody. So for every and he should tell him and his wife should sit down at the roof. Be honest with us. Where do we belong? Don't assume that you belong somewhere or you'd like to go somewhere based on what you'd like. It has to be reality. Speak to somebody you trust to actually give you guidance where you should go. number one. Number two is a very important matter is we we as dasam are trying to help this matter are looking for people to work along with us to help the this this issue. We started a a uh a project called Lakewood Moses initiative to address the issue of the moist. What we do is we track the data from all the moistas. How many kids applied? How many were accepted? what types where they should go. Could we open up another class? Could we not open up another class? Last year we we fundraised. We opened another class in a certain girl school. We filled it up with they're doing well. We tried opening up another class in the boy school. We we that it didn't work because of the infrastructure in the building. We helped another mosid establish themselves a little stronger so people are going to want to go there. We opened up a high school to to accommodate girls that were not in school. We did a lot of work. Um, this year we're going to hopefully do even a better job and we we're probably going to have to do many different things. We might have to open up a new mos, a new girl school, a new boy school, a a high school. There's a lot of things that are needed. Why are they right? Are they not right? >> Nobody wants to be the first one doing anything. There is a solution. It's twofold. People have to work together with the solution. We are going to put together a group of Russia that people trust that are very successful. They are going to be on a board in order to build the next level of schools. >> Wow. >> So therefore, it's going to be them with experience. >> Smart. >> And that's the way that people are going to have to trust the most. If somebody has a very successful school and he's opening up another one, >> putting putting an administrator, but hiring manum, >> it's going to be okay. >> I need one second. Why can't you just do it in existing schools? Just open up more more >> buildings are done. Additions are not always possible. Build, some schools could have two parallel class, some could have three, but after that they're done. They need to build a new building. No one really wants to go into that mode of discussing building new buildings. We're talking about millions of dollars. We could. If we have a fund of $10 million, we could do that. We don't have one. >> We don't have a choice. We got a couple of donations last year and we we worked very hard and we still have balance sheets from last year. What needs to be covered? The only way to deal with this is to have a fund that we could work with to accomplish a couple of things. A to help open up new classes. B to take very talented young people who are capable of running schools. Tell them that it's not going to be their their worry alone that we're going to be behind them. Get theistas that are doing this for a long time to stand behind this project as well. Money, experience, and talent can help get this done. But I need the Ingalat to witness this and work along with us. If they are not going to send to new schools where we open good schools, then we're never going to help this problem. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. Y they are sometimes saying that is that true. No, it's true. You could go in it's public knowledge. She could go into the computers. The schools has looked up to 25. Everybody's way past that. The teachers, I spoke to a principal, a lady principal yesterday. She said, um, she has 29 in each primary. If she puts one more in, the teacher said she's walking, she's leaving. So, everybody's maxed out kind of a left. It's very painful. The situation opens or there is parallel. They have sometimes two, three. At some situations, we're going to have to open new schools. Some we could work the with the existing schools, but we're trying to do our best. We're working on it. We are actually going to do a campaign in a couple of weeks. It's going to be called Lakewood Moistas Initiative. I think the title is called missing room or something like that. And again, it's very important people that care for this noise. We're going to have to work together on fixing this. So I hope you're not the only one with who the first one organization first of all there's very capable involved in this cause if people noticed before yam there were signs in the in the medium it was it was signed under the liquid moist initiative about people to new new parents to fill out forms the four from there's Ravkat from Howell and Rafitzer from see I only joined this uh initiative a couple of years in Lakewood for many many years before measi atlas who did tremendous work and all of us together and we're going to do we're going to do this is a common region just is there is there a phone number there a website or there something that we can give information find enough help >> okay so technically it this became way too big of a of a uh organization that people just call private phone numbers it just doesn't work anymore we have we opened a website where you could uh write in things and email lakewoodas.org lakewood odos.org or and you could communicate with whoever needs to be communicated over there. Um, one of the things that the first things that we're looking we're going to do once we put together the funds is to hire somebody. It's volunteer alone is going to be very difficult. We need to hire somebody to actually be involved full-time communication dealing with putting together schedules. It's a full-time job. That's one of the things that I'm looking forward to that. the parents pain. I mean for waiting till the organization is going to be the money is going to be fundraised and everything the master is is pain behind the scenes there's talks every single day unfortunately 99% is not good enough in our in our business we're not going to be okay it's a very painful I'm very aware of The bottom line is so to finalize in short I think it's important before everybody applies to a school they should sit down with somebody they trust whether it's a roof a family member understand where they belong and they should apply to the places where they belong number two they should understand right now we have an infrastructure problem and I would welcome everybody's help that could help grow this please come join us and number Three, the schools are good people. They're trying their hardest. And yes, but they're people working very hard. They're stressed out. Give them a break. And I wish the problem. So, I'm going to continue. anybody that feels that they're capable of helping give any way possible to be creative, please go on to our our website, send an email, and I would be very interested in hearing what anybody has to say. Just again, my heart goes out for everybody that's not in school that this should not be an issue in Lakewood anymore. Oh my