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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Death....?  That's a bit harsh wouldn't you say?  This is the schools first year of course there was going to be some obstacles.  But the school isn't in horrible shape, there is definitley a good foundation.  It can be a great school with the right leadership.  The kids are picking up the Hebrew language like crazy.  Many of them are able to carry on a conversation with their Hebrew teachers and this is their first year.  Academics is not the problem, the problem is the front office.  Perhaps the principal that was there wasn't a good fit and obviously Lody isn't either.  With the foundation already there I think a strong leadership can bring the school back to life.... [/quote]

Yes, but of the seven families I know who ended up there, all seven are playing the lottery in hopes they get in somewhere else.  You cannot discount the effects of a) free aftercare and b) language immersion at drawing in families who otherwise really weren't interested and would not have applied or accepted but for those 2 factors.

Sela's problem is not just the "front office".  It's a bigger problem of demand, and although the PCSB chose to approve their charter, if proving demand was ever a requirement for opening a charter, it could never have opened.  Yes, every new school has "obstacles" and sometimes they're big obstacles but still surmountable.  Sela has built into their whole basic structure (as a Hebrew immersion school) a challenge of "Will enough people choose this as their school?" and no one will ever know if things would have been dramatically different re: enrollment numbers if none of the "front office problems" were there.  Notice that only 1 person listed it here on DCUM in their common lottery choices?  That was before any news breaking about the ED leaving.[/quote]

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