After following a policy of free Jewish schooling for more than a half-century, the Jewish Education Society of San Francisco has announced that tuition will be charged for children attending week-day Hebrew schools in the city.
The society supervises all the week-day Hebrew schools and engages and pays the teachers. In the past, its only charge has been a book fee. The tuition fee to be charged is “a small one,” the society declared. It pledged that “no pupil will be barred from a Jewish school affiliated with the Jewish Education Society because of parental inability to pay the fee.”
In explaining the new policy, the society pointed out that “while there is an obligation on the part of the Jewish community to make sure that its future citizens are informed and educated Jewishly, the task is one in which parents must assume an ever increasing role And always there are the mounting needs which cannot be met fully by organizational help.”
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