Equipment of a Closed Kindergarten Purchased with Improvement Funds
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Question
My wife worked for several years as a kindergarten teacher in one of the networks and was recently dismissed because the kindergartens are downsizing and there aren't enough enrollments. Over the years, she purchased equipment for the kindergarten with improvement funds that she, as the teacher, collected from the parents to enrich the equipment in the kindergarten: books, games, dolls, photocopying materials, etc. This money was used each year to purchase additional equipment in that year and, as mentioned, was collected by her from the parents without any connection to the kindergarten network's management. Now that she is leaving the kindergarten, we wanted to ask, whose equipment is this?! Does it belong to the network, or is it essentially ownerless since the parents who paid have already benefited from it, and their children have moved on, and the equipment left in the kindergarten is in the possession of the teacher who collected it and at her discretion can now take it (it is important to note that the kindergarten management is not aware of what and how much, and is not aware of its existence at all. The question is because the teacher feels that she made an effort to collect it and bought things according to her judgment and took care of it, and the question is principled between her and herself: is she allowed to take it and what are the rules and definitions in all this).
Answer
Response of the Beit Hora'a judges:
She can take the equipment for herself.
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