Amharic Public Charter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amharic, really?

I would wager that there are more Irish-Americans living in the District than there are people of Ethiopian descent.

What are the odds the charter board would approve a Celtic culture / language school? Probably nil.

You don't understand how the charter process works. A group comes up with a plan for a school, and the board considers that plan in a vacuum, asking: will this school tewch kids what the city thinks they should know--that is, will kids from this school do well on DC CAS? That's it.

Exhibit A is the fact that the same year a Hebrew immersion school was approved, an Arabic immersion was rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amharic, really?

I would wager that there are more Irish-Americans living in the District than there are people of Ethiopian descent.

What are the odds the charter board would approve a Celtic culture / language school? Probably nil.

You don't understand how the charter process works. A group comes up with a plan for a school, and the board considers that plan in a vacuum, asking: will this school tewch kids what the city thinks they should know--that is, will kids from this school do well on DC CAS? That's it.

Exhibit A is the fact that the same year a Hebrew immersion school was approved, an Arabic immersion was rejected.

Because the Hebrew immersion school had a well-designed plan that answered all of the necessary questions. The Arabic immersion school did not. If they improve their application and submit all of the information they're welcome to try again. The PCSB's no vote isn't "no forever," it's "no to this application". Go back and do the work and get it right this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amharic, really?

I would wager that there are more Irish-Americans living in the District than there are people of Ethiopian descent.

What are the odds the charter board would approve a Celtic culture / language school? Probably nil.

There are more people of Ethiopian descent in the DC area than any other metropolitan area in the world except Addis. Some estimates put the number as high as 250,000.

Comparing Amharic, a living language spoken as the first language by many people, with Celtic is absurd.

GDP of Ireland: 217.28 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Ethiopia: 31.71 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Israel: 242.93 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of China: $7.3 trillion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Spanish-speaking South America: (3.52t for So. America - 2.09t for Brazil) $1.43 trillion US dollars in 2010

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amharic, really?

I would wager that there are more Irish-Americans living in the District than there are people of Ethiopian descent.

What are the odds the charter board would approve a Celtic culture / language school? Probably nil.

There are more people of Ethiopian descent in the DC area than any other metropolitan area in the world except Addis. Some estimates put the number as high as 250,000.

Comparing Amharic, a living language spoken as the first language by many people, with Celtic is absurd.

GDP of Ireland: 217.28 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Ethiopia: 31.71 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Israel: 242.93 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of China: $7.3 trillion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Spanish-speaking South America: (3.52t for So. America - 2.09t for Brazil) $1.43 trillion US dollars in 2010

You realize that the vast majority of business and politics in Ireland is done using English, not Irish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amharic, really?

I would wager that there are more Irish-Americans living in the District than there are people of Ethiopian descent.

What are the odds the charter board would approve a Celtic culture / language school? Probably nil.

There are more people of Ethiopian descent in the DC area than any other metropolitan area in the world except Addis. Some estimates put the number as high as 250,000.

Comparing Amharic, a living language spoken as the first language by many people, with Celtic is absurd.

GDP of Ireland: 217.28 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Ethiopia: 31.71 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Israel: 242.93 billion US dollars in 2011

GDP of China: $7.3 trillion US dollars in 2011

GDP of Spanish-speaking South America: (3.52t for So. America - 2.09t for Brazil) $1.43 trillion US dollars in 2010

You realize that the vast majority of business and politics in Ireland is done using English, not Irish?

Of course. Most business in New Mexico is conducted in English as well, and yet there are Navajo immersion programs.