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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]

SO AGREE WITH THIS. YY students are studying China - and no one has any problem with this (including me as a YY parent, btw). This picking on Sela is so gross. Good luck, Sela, YY families are used to bashing on DCUM, go forth and prosper! [/quote]

Well, I'm glad you're a parent at YY and not a teacher.  For you not to understand the difference between studying one of the 2 most commonly spoken languages in the world (and the cultures - note, cultureS - of a country with many different cultures and subcultures that are explored, and NO specific relgious focus) and studying HEBREW (not spoken by a giant % of the world population, and inextricably linked to the Jewish religion) is scary.  [/quote]

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