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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm neither a cheerleader or hater here; in fact, I'm on the fence about whether I'd send my child (and we are Jewish and do value Hebrew learning since DC will have to learn it eventually).  My hang-up has more to do with the location, which is geographically undesirable for us, and the lack of a track record being a brand new school.

Two things I learned at the forum: (1) They estimate only ~10% of the student body will be Jewish. (I don't know how they arrived at that number); and, (2) [b]they are planning for class sizes of 25 children[/b], which struck me as large for a charter school, particularly for pre-k.  (I'd expect that at a popular DCPS with lots of IB kids, but a new charter?)

And an observation - the free before and after-care may be a draw for some families.  [/quote]

Really 25 kid class size for an immersion school?  Too big even for only English. [/quote]

I don't think that is accurate. I asked at the MOTH event and was told that the school would begin with about 120 students, with two sections of each grade. Although, it may be that they are going to over-enroll because of the September shuffle (been there with my current charter, we all know there is some movement before Count). They also said several times that the school would be entirely secular and that they had a very diverse applicant pool thus far. It makes sense, there aren't that many Jewish families in DC proper, though there are a lot in Ward 4, so maybe the location is genius for them. [/quote]

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