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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question will be what demographic the school attracts. For instance, will any Latinos apply?[b] I'm sure they'll be a smattering of black students. I say black deliberately not AA. [/b]They'll be one or two Asian students - likely from a family that is not Asian. Mark my word.

This was slick. Congratulations.[/quote]

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Allow me to translate for you on behalf of the PP:

They got a Jewish school funded with taxpayer dollars, and pp thinks it's pretty slick they way they did it.

Kind of a cynical view, but my guess is the school will have to be watched closely. I can't think of a single other charter school that abuts a religious faith so closely. Only about 5 million people worldwide speak Hebrew, so it's not exactly a utilitarian language for kids going into a global economy.

I have no doubt, however, that the school will be studiously secular, and there's certainly benefit for any emergence in a second language. But Chinese and Arabic schools aren't necessarily proxies for religion and those languages have more utility.[/quote]

Please remind me how many people worldwide speak Latin. [/quote]

Please remind me of any full immersion Latin school in DC (and no, Washington Latin is not a full immersion Latin school ). I frankly do not understand the utiliy for the community of a full immersion school in a language that nobody speaks - when I traveled to Israel, everybody could speak English. So, unless you are Jewish and want to learn Hebrew for your heritage and cultural reasons, I do not see the appeal. I am Italian, my language is spoken by over 60 million people but I would be very surprised to see the DC taxpayer fund a full immersion Italian charter school in DC. I pay for a private school to make sure my DC are proficient in Italian. anyway, we will see how this works out,.[/quote]

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