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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't have to convince us, although several of us seem skeptical about any proposal to create a charter that doesn't fill any broadly shared social goal, whether that goal is serving under-served kids or building the multi-lingual workforce of the future.  The group you will need to convince is the charter school board. But so far I haven't seen them approve anything that caters quite so obviously to upper NW families with such narrow interests. There's always a first time, though.[/quote]

It worked for Washington Latin and Washington Yu Ying.  How different, really, is the concept of Washington Hebrew?  Would it skew disproportionately middle and upper-middle class?  Yes, so do they.  Would it still serve low-income students?  Yes, so do they.  The idea of the school is to provide an education to all student who are enrolled, not just the Jewish ones.  [/quote]

It's very different from Latin and Yu Ying - many PPs have pointed out why.  You need to think about these earlier posts, rather than just keep asking us to repeat the same thing over and over.

I mean it: if you want this concept to succeed, you need to take criticism seriously, and figure out good responses, rather than just pretending you just don't hear any criticism.[/quote]

Not everyone accepts the argument that it is very different.  The efforts to "point out why" are not persuasive, they're pedantic.  There are a lot of students whose families try to get them into good schools and they get shut out.  This is one more option.  We say that we want middle class families to invest in the public schools, and then we do our best to stymie them.  It's inconsistent.[/quote]

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