Sometimes I post in Hebrew but I am not convinced that everyone understands [and I can actually see how many people came to each post and those have lower numbers. If anyone wants to be mezake the rabbim and translate that would be great. I can't b/c I don't know Hebrew]. So I am copying a passage from a recent post with some English translation:
..... אחת מהישיבות המודרניות בארץ שבו ראש הישיבה לפני כשנה קיבל החלטה: אני מוכן לקבל תלמיד שהולך לברים, שגונב, שמשקר שהולך גם לנערות ליווי. אני מוכן. אני אתמודד. אבל יש לי תנאי אחד. שהוא מבטיח לי שאין לו את התפוח. זה הדבר היחיד שאני מבקש. כי כשיש לו את התפוח, אין לי חומר לעבוד מולו. הפסדתי מראש. הוא ישמע אותי, ישתכנע, ודקה אחרך כך ירוץ לסם הכי קשה שעומד מולו.
In one of the modern yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael the Rosh Yeshiva decided: I am prepared to accept a student who goes to bars, who steals, who lies, who goes with girls from escort services [!!!]. I am prepared. I will deal with it. But I have but one condition. That he promises that he doesn't have the apple [smartphone]. That is the only thing that I ask. B/c when he has the apple, I don't have the material to work with him. I lost before I started. He will hear me, be convinced and one moment later run to the most difficult drug that is right opposite him.
I can say personally that I was indescribably frustrated trying to teach boys with phones. They just weren't present.
A פלא נורא that any Torah institution allows this. Destructive to EVERYTHING they are trying to convey.
