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[quote=Anonymous]I think you're getting hung up on the legal aspects.  I'm not the poster who thinks that Hebrew=religion, although I see her point, that a school that has majority jewish teachers and students is going to have a hard time avoiding religion, if only at recess and lunchtime. But the real problem you're going to have with the charter board is probably different.

The objection that others besides myself have raised is, how would catering to kids who are already advantaged fill a "need" in the school system?  You are going to come up against DC leaders who strongly oppose charters BECAUSE they syphon upper-middle-class kids from the rest of the system. All your talk about a "select" group of kids *wink, wink* just makes their point for them.

So:  convince us this isn't just an attempt to create a "select" school for rich NW families.  And a school that caters to a religious subgroup, no less. Moreover, I'm going to bet the plan is to locate the school in NW, and not next door to KIPP in NW.  So go ahead, tell me why I'm wrong?

This school may or may not fill a niche on the DC charter landscape. I can't tell from the inept boosting on this thread. In order to sell it to the board, you need to take the concerns that have been raised seriously, and not dismiss them as mere noise and babble from the JKLM crowd.[/quote]

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