A ryeh Eisenman my youngest son has always been an individual.
When other boys in first grade wanted a ball or bat Aryeh wanted a plunger. His fascination with plumbing building fixing and constructing was already apparent early in his life.
School was never his forte. He left the local yeshivah before middle school; attended a “special” yeshivah for a couple of years returned to a different local yeshivah for seventh grade and ended up graduating with honors from Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Passaic.
Just to give you some “stats”: Lincoln Middle School serves 1 941 students in grades seven and eight. The student body is 100 percent minorities the majority of them Hispanic. When Aryeh was there he was the only Jewish child. He wore his yarmulke proudly touted his peyos with flair and never failed to only eat kosher.
