Hora'ah treasure for Kislev
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It is clear and obvious (and a great wonder that I need to be asked about this):
1) Parents must take an interest in the way their children are educated. When something is not clear, they can ask questions and make suggestions.
2) This does not at all mean that every father and mother of the student is the administration of the school or are above the administration.
3) For the benefit of the student, the institution, and so on, all this should be undertaken without tumult, disputes, and so on, especially when those involved are affiliated with Chabad, and especially since this is an explicit command: אוהב שלום (“love peace”).
4) When one has a difference of opinion with the administration and so on, the Shulchan Aruch rules explicitly: “[Conduct yourselves] according to the beis din of the community.”
5) For parents to involve the student in all this is to act in direct opposition to the goal of providing a proper chinuch, in direct opposition to the welfare of the student, and in direct opposition to the Shulchan Aruch, and so on.