"Personally, I don't know why a decision affecting the relations between different sectors is an issue the Ministry of Education should care about. they should care about education..."

Seems pretty obvious to me. Dont hide your head in the sand. We know what Yesh Atid stands for. And its not education. This is probably part of the national agenda

What are these alternatice solutions the MOE has proposed? There are no buildings locally. If its more caravans, why is that considered an alternate arrangement?

What is the chilonim's problem? Seriously, at the end of the day, half of the school building, including the courtyard around it sits empty every day of the school year. What is their real concern with the BY moving in? Is it just hatred? Is there a real reason? I am yet to hear or read anything. The best I have heard is that this was done last minute. Punishing the girls in the school of MY because Abutbol is incompetent or unorganized is not really fair. Do they have a real issue? I am quite curious

For the past 2+ years, there has been a plot assigned for Mishkenot Da'at to have a permanent school building built. However, it is in the location adjacent to the shopping center, and Abutbol has not been willing to anger the chareidi schools that are currently there that would have to move out in order to enable the building of a schoold building. He has been applying band-aid after band-aid in the form of caravans at the current Mishkenot Da'at building (which has only 9 classrooms for a school of 24 classes, not including special needs classes) but this year there is literally no place to plunk another caravan, as they have basically no more outdoor area (yes, that means that they have almost nowhere to play during recess). Any solution needs to include the commencement of the building of the permanent school building.

so what is the solution? not building buildings isnt a solution either. finding 6 empty classrooms is just another bandaid, because what happens next year when 10 more classrooms are needed? if the beis yaakov was given this entire building, they wouldnt fit into it and youd still have something like 300 children without a place to elarn.
so whats the solution?
and building gimmel without building any school buildings.. bringing thousands of more people, families with lots of kids, with no school buildings, is just exacerbating the problem.

so whats the solution?

I have a feeling, that the mayor does not take his orders from MKs in UTJ, not even Shas, but from more extreme Rabbonim here in Beit Shemesh, this i quite logical, as they got him elected and re-elected. What is the solution? Only by talking, mutual respect and understanding, all the things we should be doing during Elul. but I don't think the powers involved have the will for that - unfortunately.

It's literally criminal that Abutbol has allocated so little space for schools in the new neighborhoods that are being built. Even if Misrad haChinuch/Mifal Hapayis is prepared to build 10 brand new schools in Bet Shemesh tomorrow- there is nowhere left to put them!! How does he expect to solve the classroom shortage problem? The only strategy he seems to have is to make life hell for the chilonim so they'll all leave and their schools will go to Chareidim. I am so sick of seeing our city in the news for yet another embarrassment. Who ever heard of a city administration doing anything (never mind putting up a wall!) literally in the middle of the night?? It's bizarre. Why are we Americans such complete friars? Why didn't we elect our own people to our own party to deal with things in a normal way?? Why do we just mindlessly keep on voting for these parties that we know by now won't help us? There are thousands of Anglos in Bet Shemesh and we should unify into one party that does things American style-democratically, fairly and transparently without this horrible focus on us vs. them and all this divisiveness.

I live in the neighborhood. (My kids are also in caravans but not in that school).
First of all, the idea that the kids are bussed in means they have no right to the building is obnoxious. They live in this city (albeit not right up the block from the school). There’s a huge building in Ramat Bet Shemesh B that houses a school where 99% of the students come from Rama Alef. Why not? We are one city.
Second, a school building that is half empty needs to share the space with another school. The school is not a private building – the city granted them that space assignment, and if they don’t need it all, it goes to another school. Simple. (The problem is there are NO transparent rules for how schools are assigned space, how many years people have to wait, etc., how much under-uyilization of space requires you to move, etc. A charedi yeshiva currently in Jerusalem was granted land in RBS-C to build on, even though local schools do not have buildings. Slimy politics there.)
However, although I think the school should have to let other kids use the non-used space, I will say that in fairness to the secular parents, when people suggest that their kids have no rights to the space they’ve been in for years “because the neighborhood is religious” and after the things that were said against secular people in the last election, I don’t blame the secular parents for being angry and frightened.