I explained Donny’s ultimatum— access to one inappropriate site in return for blocking all the others
Especially not teenagers like the ones in a yeshivah I’ll call Derech Chochmah. The yeshivah is home to boys who are struggling in their Yiddishkeit, at home, and in school, and they often use technology as an outlet, albeit an unhealthy one.
Boys like the one the rosh yeshivah, whom I’ll call Rabbi Feldman, asked me to meet — a tenth-grader who was using his phone to access inappropriate material online.
“He’s waiting for you in here,” Rabbi Feldman said, pointing into the large conference room.
Then he lowered his voice to a whisper. “Donny has a great deal of potential, but it’s buried under a lot of resentment. I’m warning you, Yossie, he’s probably going to be your toughest client. Just do whatever you have to do to help him.”
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