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[quote=Anonymous]My friends who took any kind of heritage language classes, whether it was Chinese school, Hebrew school, Argentinean school, etc didn't like it much. I think there were two reasons for that. One was that they thought that their other friends were out playing, while they were stuck in school. This is no longer true, as most kids in this area are hugely over scheduled.

The other is that the teaching was generally of poor quality. Teachers are often just people who speak the language who know the clergyman or school director. They don't necessarily have training in teaching. I have a friend who taught Hebrew school. He was a biologist and very impatient. He had no business teaching kids anything. My own experience in a mainstream Presbyterian  Sunday School was that some teachers were great, others went off script to talk about Armageddon (which parents would have stopped, had they known), and a few had personality disorders. It seems to me that it would be statistically unlikely that every synagogue or church has a full complement of people who are both versed in the language or material and who are competent, trained teachers.

Temple Micah in DC teaches kids Hebrew via Skype. I've heard good things about their program.[/quote]

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