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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b] 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.[/b]  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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NP, I am a parent of a child in a DCI feeder, and I do not see the value at this time of adding more languages.  I am skeptical how DCI will handle Mandarin and French at a school that will be overwhelmingly dominated by Spanish.  How will they support the three languages and fufill their charter.  BTW--I would not support Finnish either.[/quote]
This. All the respect in the world for my Jewish brothers and sisters, but I just don't think that Hebrew is appropriate for DCI. They'll have enough time supporting French and Chinese with the small classes from those schools. Hebrew would create even more challenges. As a DCI feeder parent I'd like my child to focus on the three being offered and would actually be opposed to him Hebrew- not because I have issues with Jewish people and their culture, but because I'd want him to take what I believe are more useful languages (Spanish, Mandarin, French, Arabic, and Russian in that order). While Arabic and Russian aren't in the mix (nor should they be with the difficulty in supporting the three already), if there were options to expand, Id support those two. Also, unless SELA finds a way to become fully subscribed (i'm understanding it's under subscribed at the moment), it wouldn't graduate a class large enough to enter DCI anyways. A lot of this banter is just speculative fodder in my opinion.[/quote]

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