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[quote=Anonymous]Even if the school were to become MOST appealing to "Jews" (given the way this conversation has gone, I think the scare quotes are warranted), it's a leap from that to the accusation that there will be religious educational content. So no church/state conflict there, but we can talk about the decades of discomfort non-Christian students have endured singing Silent Night. In fact, my family found some of Oyster's Spanish-speaking world immersion uncomfortable because of the frequent occurrence of explicitly religious themes in holiday celebrations and craft projects. But it would be a gross misstatement to say that Oyster offers a religious program just because it offers experience of a culture in which religion has been a prominent influence. I also think narrowly focusing a whole city's language education options on best bets for "success in the global economy" shows a real... poverty of the spirit. As it happens, Hebrew was my first language, but Italian is by far my favorite language. The fact that there is no broader interest in an Italian immersion school and that it's even hard to find Italian offered in DCPS high schools is tragic as far as I'm concerned, given the sheer beauty of the Italian musical, artistic, and literary traditions. Bread alone, and all that. I guess a city of lawyers and lobbyists is bound to have a limited view of what makes an educated person and why we educate people in the first place, but that's a damn shame. I wish the school would consider offering Arabic in addition because it's the most marketable Semitic language, because knowledge of one should help with acquisition of the other, and because it would open up interesting cross-cultural possibilities. But mostly, I wish my own kid were younger so we could take advantage of the opportunity, and also so that I could be entitled to say "Shalom, Bitches!" like PP. Love that.[/quote]
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