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It is hard to argue with people who cite wikipedia as evidence. People who make statements like "I don't think the school has much to offer people who aren't Jewish," and assert, out of their ass, that the school's "niche is religion." but then somehow, accuse posters of " trying to turn this discussion into an anti-Judaism thing, when they point out you are full of it. 1. Non-Jews speak Modern Hebrew; 2. the school is NOT religious; 3. charter schools are by definition niche schools, they exist to give people options; 4. not all speakers of a language are fluent - presumably the non-linguist who posted the wikipedia listing is taking some number of Israeli population numbers which are near 8 million - state department figures peg around 12 million Hebrew speakers. Swedish speakers number about 11 million as a comparison. 4. No one is arguing that either language is widely-spoken, but the whole tenor of your exchange suggests you are fixated on a "controversy" that doesn't exist. Ask yourself if you would do the same about another language. Doubtful....l and that should be offensive to all non-Jews, as well as Jews. [/quote]

You are correct that I shouldn't have said the 'niche is religion', that was a complete misstatement/typo and I apologize.  The niche is Hebrew,  and that is very largely a language that people of one religion will be interested in, and most other people will not be.  You can cite all the fancy statistics you want - when the non Jewish parents in DC come out in signfican numbers and say that they want our child to learn Hebrew (as opposed to saying, 'I want to send my kid to that school b/c I think it will be good and we have no other choices') , I will be proven grossly mistaken.

And I DID said in my post in multiple ways that I would feel the same way about any other language immersion charter that was used by only 12 million people, didn't I?  A Swedish charter school?  I would not be a fan at all.  But you are choosing not to hear that and making it what you want to make it, so is certainly difficult to have a civilized discussion about it.

Finally, I am not fixated on any sort of controversy, I just don't like the school, and I think it will attract more controversy than Roots did, for instance.  Maybe I'm wrong.  I think its fine that it got its charter, I'm sure that plenty of kids will go there.  Just not a fan.  But go ahead and turn it into whatever you want to, since that seems to be your goal.
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