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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a non-Jewish Sela parent and the article had a lot of inaccuracies in it - including about the curriculum. Sela has a completely separate curriculum from the NY school referenced in the article - a curriculum that involves studying the wide variety of ethnic groups (from many faith communities) who make their homes in Israel, and other countries around the world where Hebrew is studied and spoken. Sela is the only charter school in the country that teaches all subjects in both Hebrew and English. As a person of color in the United States, I always find it interesting when  people act as if Israelis don't have a culture worth studying, or hyper-focus on social justice issues in Israel as if America and Americans are in any position to judge any country on civil rights issues. If you don't want to send your kids to Sela, fine, but marginalizing cultures, languages, etc. - smacks of something pretty insidious. [/quote]

People can study anything they want, the point is whether or not tax dollars should be paying for this particular charter school, I still say NO. [/quote]

Ditto.  Non-Jewish Sela parent, you are conflating the discussions about whether Sela will be secular and the value of Hebrew as a world language with a discussion that is NOT occurring re: the value of studying Isreali culture.  Those 3 topics are not all the same.  I am not judging whether Isreali culture is worth studying or not, but as PP correctly said, the question is which schools and subjects are appropriate for public tax dollars.

On the "Legitimate for public tax dollars: yes or no?" question, me, I'm not decided yet.  A whole lot will depend on what I hear from the families that I know who will be attending on what the curriculum actually turns out to be.  But if it walks like a Jewish Day School (just with a LOT of non-Jewish students enrolled) and it talks like a Jewish Day School, I will not be supportive of it as a "secular school focused on language and no religion to be seen" which is what it has received its charter based on.[/quote]

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