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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would fully support a Finnish immersion school. Finnish is a very difficult language - and the Finnish educational model is arguably the best or one of the best in the world. The anti-Sela harpies come out every time Sela receives any news whatsoever, e.g., being ranked as a four star school or being ranked tier 1. If you don’t want to send your kid there, don’t. I don’t particularly like my tax dollars being spent at several far less excelling DCPS or charter schools, or subsidizing rich families with pre-k 3. However, there is plenty utility in learning any difficult language, particularly if you want school to be rigorous and interesting, which we know you don’t think poor children or children of color deserve.  [/quote]

I agree here.  I think many are complaining that taxpayer funds are going to fund Hebrew (admittedly a “random” language choice for DC), but dc also finds a ton of shitty schools.  Sela is a strong school (historically tier 1 except for this year because they have a very small fifth grade class skewing the scores and bc it’s the first year they did parcc testing).  So it’s not like DC is funding a random language immersion that is poorly ranked.  If dc wants to fund a strong immersion school -regardless of what language- so that more strong immersion schools are offered in DC than I strongly support that.  DCUM can’t complain on one hand that there aren’t enough strong charters in DC then also complain that DC shouldn’t fund an existing strong charter because its Hebrew. [/quote]
+2. I don't really think there's a valid argument on this thread - just ranting that kids are being taught Hebrew. Or maybe some of these posters are just anti school choice.

You can't look at the largely lackluster DCPS system and say with a straight face you don't think taxpayer dollars should go to a public school that is performing.

Anyway it's a moot point - anyone can start your own immersion charter school in whatever language you want. Come up with a successful program and your school will get taxpayer dollars too (though not nearly as much as DCPS schools get). It's good to have out of the box choices.[/quote]

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