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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of families who "settled" for LAMB, MV, YY, Stokes etc not b/c they have any interest or connection to Spanish, Mandarin, etc but b/c it was the best school option their child got into.  There will be many families who "settle" for SELA for the same reason.   unfortunately, Hebrew is a about as useful as Albanian, Tagalog, etc for most people.

- signed Mom of child at another immersion charter who has to learn Hebrew for his bar mizvah but have no interest in sending him to SELA.[/quote]

There are certainly jobs out there where having some mastery of Chinese or Spanish gives a person an edge over the monolingual competition.

I don't see many opportunities for using Hebrew. Maybe to tutor bar/bat mitzvah students? Although presumably they are doing modern Hebrew immersion which might be different than the Hebrew taught in synagogue.  [/quote]

One of the more ignorant statements I have heard on this thread. Not a Hebrew speaker, but I can tell you that several of the scientists on my team at NIH are, and they do lots of research projects with counterparts in Israel and go back and forth in Hebrew. Israel, sadly, has a more sophisticated, and active scientific research community (thank you, Republicans!). Honestly, useful is subjective. I think we should just disband all charter schools and create magnate DCPS for MATH AND SCIENCE. No languages, no green-centered, no Afro-centered. Just math and science. That's what I define as useful. [/quote]

Dear lovely scientist: may I inquire in what language do those same scientists publish their findings and disseminate them worldwide?

Not Hebrew[/quote]

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