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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pro-sela.  Staff seems to really care, students seem well-behaved, environment seems positive.  I think a Hebrew language immersion is a gateway to Arabic as the languages are very similar (like Italian and Spanish) so very useful as well.

The commute would be reverse for us since were in CH with a metro there to hop right to work. That said, we don't go there because of the commute and would rather a closer school even with less amenities with two working parents who are stretched for time as it is.  We also don't buy into the obsession for being bilingual.

It seems that it's all about the branding tho.  Some schools have better branding even if the language isn't truly that useful on a daily basis and other schools don't. Some schools seem to have huge demand even though they aren't good schools.  Sela is one of the better schools but just no demand.[/quote]

Enough demand to fill the school, though. Perhaps less demand among UMC white parents - not sure that’s a real metric for success. [/quote]

X1000. There are non-white upper middle class families on here. As well as many middle class and working class families of many colors on here. Not sure why everyone things only upper income folks are on here.
At any rate being a strong school and a good option for many doesn't mean it is a mostly white school. Most of this city is not white, so it is logical there are lots of families of color looking for finding good school too.  So, LOTS of other valid points of view on what makes a good school.
And of course folks change opinions can change quickly about which is a 'good' dcps or dcpcs. SELA along with a few other charters and IB will probably grow in popularity as other schools continue to be harder to enter. And folks get feed up with how bad some others are actually run. 
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