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[quote=Anonymous] I'm a VA resident, was intrigued by the length of this thread and frequent reoccurrence, so I have read most of it over the past few weeks, and looked at the charter school application and previous applications, budget requirements, etc and don't quite get the uproar before a charter has even been submitted.  The way I see it, and please correct me if I am wrong:
--Hebrew school is writing charter for 2012/13 school year
--there can be up to 20 charters approved per year
--in 2010 there were 13 applications for 2011 school year  (per charter school board website)
--as there isn't a large number of applicants that would result in one charter being chosen over another due to #s...why can't it be approved, and let the market for a Hebrew language charter school sort itself out?
--there is a demographic portion of the application in which the parts of the city and student populations that will be targeted for this school will live. As well as an area where you indicate your proposed school location. I would assume that the charter school board, upon review of the application, would identify whether those are a problem. You know, when they know what the schools board plans, vs speculation on an anonymous Internet message board
--there is also a very in depth budget section of the application. I know that the charter board has been in existence since 96 so I assume that they have seen one or two of these before. I.e. If the proposed $$ based on anticipated student enrollment aren't legit, they will flag it.
--the application also indicates that the school can't teach religion. Wouldn't it be a waste of time for the founders to start a school teaching some Judaism along with their Hebrew if they end up getting their charter yanked in the process?
--there is not only the charter board review of the charter, but an open community review session. So it's not like the charter is written and automatically approved and kids start reading right to left the next day.

This just seems like 16 pages of ridiculousness and accusations and unfounded silliness to me. Not even putting the cart in front of the horse, but putting the cart in front of th horse before it is shod or even weaned off of it's mom.

That said, I know that a cry of antisemitism generally takes away any and all authority of the statements preceding it, but two of my husbands best friends said something to him in all seriousness today about Jews being involved with Jesus' death (they are Catholic, we are Jewish). This made me realize that antisemitism really is still out there, even if subtly.  And makes me wonder whether this 16 pages of drama over a charter that hasn't even been submitted yet has it's roots in antisemitism?
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