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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps some trolls. But it is true that the school has yet to hit its enrollment targets. It isn't trolling to saybthat Hebrew immersion isn't sustainable or frankly an appropriate curriculum for a public school. Just makes one opinionated.[/quote]

This.

Hebrew immersion makes no more sense than Quechua immersion or Finnish immersion.  It was established so a few people could defray part of the cost of Jewish day school on the taxpayer's dime and serves no legitimate secular purpose for the rest of the student body.

There ought to have been a first amendment lawsuit. Or better yet, a charter board that acted with integrity.  [/quote]

There's no religious component to the school, though -- which is what makes it sort of useless to both the Jewish families who might otherwise be interested in a day school experience (since Judaism is a big part of why they'd be into that) and to the non-Jewish families who might be interested in an immersion school (because Hebrew is a particularly un-pragmatic language to learn, insofar as so many of its native speakers also speak English and it's mostly spoken only in one country).

I don't think that means it runs into any First Amendment problems, though -- it just might explain why they're having trouble retaining students.[/quote]

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