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After reading your article on Yeshivat
Akiva ("Akiva: The Roads Ahead,"
Jan. 1), we collectively felt a need to
share our opinions with your readers.
Akiva is, and has always been, a
critical factor in the Detroit Jewish
community's educational arsenal. It
serves an important constituency and
provides a vital service to hundreds of
young people. It offers its students a
first-class education and counts among
its alumni successful rabbis, doctors,
lawyers, teachers and communal ser-
vants, many of whom have accepted
positions of leadership in Detroit and
in Jewish communities across the
country.
Akiva's graduates are considered
well prepared for their post-high
school experience and have attended
some of the country's finest universi-
ties.
Every day school today faces enor-
mous challenges both internally and
externally. Akiva is no exception.
Because of the important communal
role Akiva has, it deserves our whole-
hearted help and friendship.
Gary Torgow
President, Yeshiva Beth Yehuda
Dr. Edward Hurvitz
Yeshivas Darchei Torah
Steve Margolin
President, Hillel Day School
Dr. Saul Weingarden
President, Yeshiva Gedola
Students Raise
Objections
As two ninth-grade students at Akiva
Hebrew Day School, we feel that your
article about our school ("Akiva: The
Roads Ahead" Jan. 1) was uncalled for
and that it only focused on the nega-
tive aspects of our school.
We don't understand why you
thought it was acceptable to embarrass
and hurt many people, including the
Jewish community, our parents and
the staff and students of our school,
ourselves included.
We feel at home at our school and
feel more attention was given to what
has gone on in the past than what is
going on in the present. We don't see
why you asked former graduates of
Akiva what is going on today when
the students at the school now are
who you should have asked.
You said our school is moving
toward the right because we are sepa-
rated for davening (prayers) and class-
es. As students who take part in these
activities, we see that the separate dav-
ening has helped more people partici-
pate in the services. We feel this way
because when we davened with the
boys, we were bored during the parts
we could not participate in.
We are separated for our Judaic
classes only, which is preferred by Jew- r-'
ish law. This also benefits our learning
because different laws apply to the dif-
ferent genders, so by being separated,
we are allowed and able to learn more
things.
It is very inappropriate that you
would mention the salaries of
employees at our school, then corn-
pare them to others, especially pub-
lic school. First of all, you are invad-
ing our teachers' privacy. Secondly,
public schools get their money
through taxes while private schools
have to get their money through
tuition and donations.
Our parents pay tuition for us and
pay taxes for public school, so that
means they are paying our teachers'
salaries and public school teachers'
salaries. Therefore, you cannot expect
the teachers at our school to be earn-
ing the same amount of money as
teachers in large, affluent public
school systems.
The academics at our school may
not be the strongest, but we know our
teachers and administration are con-
stantly working as hard as they can to
improve the level of education at our
school.
We can only assume you wrote this
article to turn people away from our
school. We feel there are so few mod-
ern Orthodox schools today, you
should be encouraging all of those try-
ing to exist rather than belittling
them.
In spite of all the negatives you
provided in your article, all of the stu-
dents you interviewed were accepted
to, and were attending, very fine col-
leges. We guess the University of
Michigan, Brandeis, etc., think more
of Akiva than you do; but then again,