The Ramapo Central School District has a visit from Rockland County Jewish orthodox community agent Yossi Gestetner during a late June 2016 Ramapo Central school board meeting.

Yossi Gestetner, a Jewish orthodox community advocate and public relations professional address a recent Ramapo Central School Board meeting about the district’s changes in its public transportation policy.

The Board of Education meeting was at the public comments portion, with part of the evening’s discussion focused on the district’s changes to its transportation policy for the upcoming 2016/17 school year.

A PR professional with a hand in the Jewish advocacy group OJPAC and vociferous advocate for the orthodox community in Rockland County, Gestetner politely delivered a message to the Ramapo Central School District board, suggesting that changes in the district’s transportation policy could have long range implications.

Ignore a growing community, he said, and your future might become like that of the East Ramapo Central School District. Gestetner was apparently referring to East Ramapo’s on-going issues with a large Jewish orthodox community that primarily sends its kids to non public schools. The school district also went through a period of years where nearly the entire school board was comprised of orthodox members who didn’t have any children in the public school system.