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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SELA parents and administrators, congratulations as the school moves forward.  Please remember that in 4 or 5 years, you will have a 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.  Make plans now to accommodate those students who wish to enter the school in those years (who may already know Hebrew, or not).

P.S. -- Lots of Hebrew-language schools in Israel accommodate new kids who don't speak Hebrew.  It can be done.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is questioning that it could be done, but rather the effect having later-grade admitted students has on the school and its resources in the face of the requirement that non-speakers of target language and speakers of target language be treated the same.

Israeli public schools are required/and funded to teach Hebrew to new immigrants and migrant children from all over the world. DCPS has the same task vis a vis English, which explains some of DC's testing issues. A charter school is not funded like a regular DCPS, and thus, while it must accommodate ESL students, it does have the right to say, taking Hebrew as a second/third language students after the second grade is going to be too hard on the school budget and school culture -we would have to hire more teachers, it would detract from the immersion model, etc.

I suspect that Sela, Yu Ying, Lamb, etc. would LOVE to take later grade students who are already speakers of the target immersion language. Really we should lobby the people who have the admissions test rule in place for an exception for later admitted students in immersion charters. Is that the charter school board? The city council? Congress? [/quote]

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