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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did Sela get this space?  IT families would have liked it.[/quote]

Not all IT families.  There are quite a few of us who live in Logan Circle/U Street and want to remain centrally located.[/quote]

Well, I have to say living in U Street - I'm actually happy about Sela's location. It's just a few metro stops away, and we did not have a great reaction when we visited some of the schools in our neighborhood, e.g., Meridian, IT. So, from a location perspective - I think they did a good job in finding such a large space. [/quote]

But how can you compare existing charters with a new charter that hasn't yet started? How do you know whether Sela will get great teachers, or just any old teacher they can get who speaks Hebrew? After all, the pool of native Hebrew-speaking teachers can't be that big, can it? I want to be able to meet the teachers before my DD starts school. [/quote]

Well, all charters schools have to start at some point, and then people have to give it a go, without meeting all of the teachers ahead of time. Sela seems to be starting with preK, K, and 1, so with younger kids, and the teachers will be half English speakers and half Hebrew speakers. I don't know how many native Hebrew speakers there are in DC proper, but there are plenty in MoCo, and if Sela looks nationally, it doesn't seem like a stretch to think they would find three good Hebrew speaking teachers. Meridian has been in existence for several years - and I wouldn't send my kids there, pretty new building or no pretty new building. Also was not impressed with IT. Got shut out of many of the top charters, so I'm willing to give Sela the benefit of the doubt for pre-K4. People forget, but there was similar trash-talking on YY, MV, even Two Rivers....and now people would kill to get into those schools. [/quote]

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