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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Jewish schools in our area have not been competitive academically with the independent (private) schools. Makes no sense to me to put your child at a disadvantage unless you are religious. [/quote]

This is interesting to me.  My kids are at JDS.  The school is working to increase enrollment and one of the committees is focused on what can be done to bring more students to the school.  If the school is not academically competitive with the independent private schools, then that is something that should change.  My question is why do you think the jewish schools are not academically competitive?  Which schools do you consider academically competitive?  What do you think the differentiators are?[/quote]

My impression is that a lot of class time is spent on Hebrew language and Judaica.  If my kids are unlikely to want to live in Israel, will not be pursuing joint citizenship, and are borderline observant, it makes so sense that they would spend time on subjects that they won't use, rather than core academic subjects.

This is nothing JDS can change.  It is at the core of the school's identity. But that rules it out for certain families for whom those subjects aren't important and who are concerned other subjects could suffer as a result.  [/quote]

This is true.  My kids are in the lower school and 1/2 of their day is spent in hebrew/judiacs.  The school day is longer than MCPS elem but not 50% longer.  I have no way of knowing if what my kid is learning in math is on par with low/grade/high level MCPS or other private school math.  I wish I had a comparative method.  It would be so nice if all the schools would post by grade level what their expectations were for each subject.

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