Waiting for the end...

Just gone 6pm at Avigdor, and I'm waiting for the end. This is really what I have seen coming for the last 6 months: the inevitable vote by Governors to close the school and end 65 years of trailblazing history of Jewish education in this country.

I can't say I think the decision will be wrong; but it's sad that I'm presiding over the demise of the school. Not nice to be the final Headteacher in an illustrious line.

The real blame, of course, lies with no-one - not even the spineless parents of Stamford Hill who won't send their children here even though they're desperate for the education we offer, and the equally spineless rabbonim who won't say in public what they will admit to in private: that their kehilla needs Avigdor and that for some families it's the l'hatchila choice. It lies, if anywhere, in the culture of fear within this kehilla that leaves families terrified at being outcasts if they are seen associating with a school that's frum, but not quite frum enough. We need Moshiach.