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[quote=Anonymous]Jews are also "overrepresented" in cults, the porn industry, and competitive chess. None of this matters, of course, since this won't be a Jewish school. It MAY be a school with SOME Jewish students like other elementary schools in DC, with SOME Jewish teachers like other elementary schools in DC, and a MAJORITY of African, African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese students like other elementary schools in DC (there really just aren't enough of us in DC proper to "take over"). The only difference is that this school will expose kids to a foreign language, namely, Modern Hebrew. Not as "beautiful" as Italian (subjective), not as "useful" as Mandarin (subjective), but a real language which can serve as a springboard for language learning throughout the kids' lifetimes.

Do Jewish parents place great importance on education? Yes. But that this is also true of all of the Hispanic and African-American parents in my circle of friends. College begets college in any ethic group. Parents who are college-educated want their children to be college-educated. In this country, Jews, like Asian-Americans, and Arab-Americans are more likely to be college-educated. What charter schools try to do is to put kids in a position to go to college and grow up to be parents who take for granted that their kids will go to college, too.

Jewish single mother/doctoral student[/quote]

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