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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slick poster back. For the record, I was equally outraged at how the ADW was able to dump their crappy schools by converting them to charters on an accelerated approval track. That was slicker than slick. By the way, I love the poster who said, "Shalom Bitches!" Too funny. Maybe I'm just [b]overly worried about equity for DC's children[/b]. No religious intolerance meant at all.[/quote] Can you talk more about that concern? I do think that the idea of charter schools filling particular educational niches is entirely perverted by the poor quality of many DCPS schools.* However, I also think that is what will save Washington Hebrew from being a "Jewish school." Right now we have kids learning Chinese whose parents wanted them to learn Spanish, kids in year-round school whose parents wanted them to learn French, kids in expeditionary learning programs whose parents just want them to be at a school without metal detectors--the list goes on. And that's why I believe that Washington Hebrew won't be a threat to church-state separation. The founders' kids will get in preferentially, and I'd expect them to have a connection to Israel, but the classrooms will still be dominated by kids whose parents would have preferred something else, but are so grateful to have anything at all. [size=9]* I really don't mean to engage in gratuitous DCPS bashing. There are some great DCPS schools--including East of the Park schools, Title I schools & East of the River schools. I mean only to represent the sense of desparation--justified or not--that so many EoP parents feel. [/size][/quote]
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