To start with we LOVED the teachers and atmosphere for our toddler. But, we had to pull our child out due to negligent and lax COVID policies that have resulted in weekly exposures and illness among the children too young to be vaccinated. These policies are an outgrowth of the lax policies being exhibited at local shuls where masking and distancing are non-existent. This has exposed vulnerable children and adults to a cycle of disease and the administration have not only ignored parental concerns but have further relaxed rules. On two occasions we were told to get PCR tests but no one ever actually looked at them. The last draw was that they waited several days after an exposure to let the parents know and then put into place a testing schedule that would have exposed children to any additional COVID positive children for up to 4 days. The principal only responded to concerns when outed on public facebook discussion pages and refused to participate in any sort of forum with the parents the doctors who are allegedly consulting with him (no evidence of their consult has been shown to parents). This is not a school that takes health seriously.
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- EIN 25-1067130
- (412) 521-8131
- 5685 Beacon St Pittsburgh PA 15217-2011 USA
- hillelpgh.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Primary & Elementary Schools
Mission: The mission of hillel academy of pittsburgh, an orthodox jewish day school, is to graduate young men and women with unlimited capacity to compete in a superior manner in any challenge they undertake, who are god fearing, torah observant models of exemplary character, who love god, the jewish people, and the land of israel and possess a love of learning, confidence and the ability to think critically and serve as active members and leaders of the jewish community and of society.
Programs: Providing primary education to students in nursery through twelfth grade. Hillel academy provides a secular and religious education to the students. (the academy enrolled approximately 358 students during the year)