Informal Education is an essential but often underestimated part of Chinuch in today’s world
If you ALSO have fun with your students, take them on trips and camps, you will bond better with them and ultimately give them a greater love of Torah.
the same Rabbis who educate in the classroom also have to educate outside the classroom and serve as role models in normal, everyday life.
Whatever money is spent on this is MORE than justified, and those who feel it is a “waste of time and money” suffer from a serious loss of vision.