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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's sad about the newer posts of this thread is that instead of focusing on the challenges of the school, the Sela boosters are taking the cowardly and easy way by calling skeptics anti-Semetic. Seems really shallow and pathetic and certainly will give interested families pause to go elsewhere. Our children's education is the most important thing there is. Period. Being skeptical is not only appropriate, but the responsibility of good parents. Also, just because many people, Jewish people included, have expressed that Hebrew is self-limiting in numerous threads on DCUM doesn't make them anti-Semetic. It does, however, make Sela boosters seem desperate and lazy when they so quickly pull the race card in opposition to the criticism. If nothing else, this interaction leaves much to be desired with respect to meeting real Sela parents. I hope you all aren't represented by the boosters up-thread.[/quote]

You're having a lot of trouble keeping in mind that not everyone who supports language immersion schools is a Sela booster.  I have two children and we're at a different DCI feeder school.  I see a lot of value in adding more languages to the DCI mix, and the more the better.  If you don't care for Hebrew, then simply don't have your children take it.  However a knee-jerk reaction against the option for others smells fishy.

Approximately the same number of people speak Hebrew as Finnish, though somehow I doubt we'd hear so many complaints about how "self-limiting" or "useless" Finnish is.  That raises eyebrows.  
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