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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the Sela animosity due to?[/quote]

Feverish brows, marked pettiness, disgruntled DCPS teachers who want all charters to fail, holders of prized copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, people who were lazy and didn't oppose Sela and/or YY, and/or Basis, and/or other "unique" charters when they had their chance before the PCSB, and therefore bitch anonymously on DCUM, [b]people who believe that Hebrew is too "hard" for African-Americans and other DC children (aka bigotry of soft expectations)....[/b]but certainly not from other charters in the District, the Charter School Board, most parents looking for quality education choices for their children, Muriel Bowser, Kid Power, FOCUS, or other supporters of Sela. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself, folks. [/quote]

Whoa, where did you pull that one from?  I've never seen anyone on DCUM say that about Sela "too hard for AA students"??  Seriously, Hebrew is "hard" but Mandarin isn't?  You sure you're not projecting on that one?  [/quote]

Not the PP, but I've seen more than one accusation in this forum that Hebrew is not a useful-enough language that families will enroll and trek over from Wards 7 & 8, consequently it will be a white, upper middle class school by default.  "useful enough" "practical" "realistic" whatever - there are some posters out there who are very opposed to SELA, and pointing out its lack of "utility" to the (almost exclusively AA) families in Anacostia is just one more way to suggest they're not as smart as you are - not smart enough to care about another language, however challenging.[/quote]

I just don't see how you jump from "not useful" to "families in Anacostia aren't as smart as you".  Nothing said in this conversation (and I've been following all the bilingual ed conversations in the last 5 months here closely b/c that's what I'm going for for my DS) has talked about it being too hard.  Only questioning why anyone (including DC's majority AA student poulation) would choose Hebrew over a language they can actually use widely in the US or abroad like Spanish, French or Mandarin, or usewidely in world businesses like Hindu, Mandarin or Russian.  That is not the same as saying "Because those kids aren't smart enough to learn it".[/quote]

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