DC Hebrew approved!!

[Anonymous]

No way this school attracts more than a handful of black kids. And a school without black kids cannot make enrollment in DC. I predict this school closes before the end of the fall because they can't make their payroll with 50 kids enrolled.

-a private school teacher with one Jewish parent

[Anonymous]

Funny, my tax dollars are paying for it too and I have no problem with it. In fact, I think it is silly that kids are learning Spanish. Guess what. Really doesn't matter what I think.

Approved. Move on people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way this school attracts more than a handful of black kids. And a school without black kids cannot make enrollment in DC. I predict this school closes before the end of the fall because they can't make their payroll with 50 kids enrolled.

-a private school teacher with one Jewish parent

Oh silly teacher. Please explain the high number of black kids in the Brooklyn charter. Then when you have figured that out please tell me what DC private you are in with one Jewish parent. Me thinks you are way out of touch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about textbooks? Expensive!

Don't like it, don't apply: It's more complicated than that. My tax dollars are paying for it.

This school is going to be a lightning rod, let me tell you. It's going to be perceived as elitist, it's going to have a narrower appeal. AA students learning Chinese, Spanish, the classics at Washington Latin, that makes sense. Hebrew?

If people don't like it, they won't go and the school will close. If people DO like it and it becomes popular, then it's safe to say that its appeal is, in fact, wide. This will sort itself out rather quickly.

And I'm stealing this tag line:

Shalom, bitches!

[Anonymous]

In the words of the sage Mary J Blige,:

Enough with the [Hebrew] hateration and holleratin. If you were too lazy to voice your concerns during the application process, you have only yourselves to blame. Meanwhile, the Hebrew Charter like all of the other charter schools, had to submit a comprehensive budget, recruitment plan, and curricula. They had to go through interviews, a public hearing, get letters of support from the community to make their case. If you don't want your kids to go there, DON'T SEND THEM. If you want to establish a German language charter school, cause you think that's a more useful language, GO AHEAD. But this demonizing of a group who wants to set up a quality, safe school for ALL DC kids is over the top, and really: "[w]e don't need, don't need, no haters."

[Anonymous]

If only we could produce a few decent athletes we would have (what would come to be known as) the trifecta!

Sandy Koufax

Mark Spitz!

Hank Greenberg - that might be it!

Jeff Halpern!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way this school attracts more than a handful of black kids. And a school without black kids cannot make enrollment in DC. I predict this school closes before the end of the fall because they can't make their payroll with 50 kids enrolled.

-a private school teacher with one Jewish parent

Oh silly teacher. Please explain the high number of black kids in the Brooklyn charter. Then when you have figured that out please tell me what DC private you are in with one Jewish parent. Me thinks you are way out of touch.

As an AA from New York City, I can tell you that the racial/cultural dynamic is a little different up there. It doesn't surprise me that many blacks are enrolled in a Hebrew charter in New York. That being said, if a middle-upper class black parent in DC has few options for public/charter schools, I believe most would at least consider a Hebrew charter even if it isn't at the top of their list. However, AAs on the bottom of the socio-economic ladder probably will not.

Perhaps you haven't noticed but middle-upper class blacks chase after the same schools that middle-upper class whites desire. Thats why the FARMS numbers are comparitively low at the most sought after charters where the ratios are 50/50. Poorer, less educated blacks tend to stick with their neighborhood schools or chase after the well publicized charters like KIPP, CAPCS, SEED or DC Prep.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know that there were different categories of AAs when considering who will attend the school.

So if middle-upper class blacks attend Hebrew then it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids. You have to have "less educated" black parents choosing the school to really mean that blacks are choosing the school.

Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If only we could produce a few decent athletes we would have (what would come to be known as) the trifecta!

Sandy Koufax
Mark Spitz!
Hank Greenberg - that might be it!
Jeff Halpern!

Sid Luckman
Lyle Alzado
Michael Phelps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know that there were different categories of AAs when considering who will attend the school.

So if middle-upper class blacks attend Hebrew then it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids. You have to have "less educated" black parents choosing the school to really mean that blacks are choosing the school.

Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only we could produce a few decent athletes we would have (what would come to be known as) the trifecta!

Sandy Koufax
Mark Spitz!
Hank Greenberg - that might be it!
Jeff Halpern!

Sid Luckman
Lyle Alzado
Michael Phelps

Unless he converted, Michael Phelps is not Jewish. Kevin Youkilis, though, now there's a Jew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know that there were different categories of AAs when considering who will attend the school.

So if middle-upper class blacks attend Hebrew then it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids. You have to have "less educated" black parents choosing the school to really mean that blacks are choosing the school.

And guess what, there are more or less educated Whites and more or less educated Hispanics, too. Are we going to pretend that class divisions don't exist? Because that's all the PP is observing. Middle and upper-middle class AA families DO want the same things middle and upper-middle class white families want. Why? Has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that we're talking about class. Let's not conflate the two and then play dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know that there were different categories of AAs when considering who will attend the school.

So if middle-upper class blacks attend Hebrew then it really isn't like black kids are attending it because they are more like white kids. You have to have "less educated" black parents choosing the school to really mean that blacks are choosing the school.

Got it.

Sorry it was supposed to read like this, I missed a break:

And guess what, there are more or less educated Whites and more or less educated Hispanics, too. Are we going to pretend that class divisions don't exist? Because that's all the PP is observing. Middle and upper-middle class AA families DO want the same things middle and upper-middle class white families want. Why? Has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fact that we're talking about class. Let's not conflate the two and then play dumb.

[Anonymous]

The public Hebrew schooll model works in NYC because of the demographics there. You have a very large population of lower middle class jews who would utilize such a school. DC does not have that population in significant numbers. Jews in DC send their kids to Sidwell, GDS, and Deal a Wilson in very large numbers. My concern is that Jews will not use the school in sufficient numbers to reach a Gladwellian tipping point. My children are half Jewish; I am willing to try the school out next year. My son is at Deal and we live in ward 3. It would be worth it to me just to get away from anti-semites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only we could produce a few decent athletes we would have (what would come to be known as) the trifecta!

Sandy Koufax
Mark Spitz!
Hank Greenberg - that might be it!
Jeff Halpern!

Sid Luckman
Lyle Alzado
Michael Phelps

Sadly impressive list of famous Jewish atheletes. However since this is all we have, we will have to settle for controlling the money and the media. Someday we will be able to add "sports world" to that list, finally completing the "Magic Johnson" trifecta.