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What is the Sela animosity due to?

Feverish brows, marked pettiness, disgruntled DCPS teachers who want all charters to fail, holders of prized copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, people who were lazy and didn't oppose Sela and/or YY, and/or Basis, and/or other "unique" charters when they had their chance before the PCSB, and therefore bitch anonymously on DCUM, people who believe that Hebrew is too "hard" for African-Americans and other DC children (aka bigotry of soft expectations)....but certainly not from other charters in the District, the Charter School Board, most parents looking for quality education choices for their children, Muriel Bowser, Kid Power, FOCUS, or other supporters of Sela. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself, folks.

Whoa, where did you pull that one from? I've never seen anyone on DCUM say that about Sela "too hard for AA students"?? Seriously, Hebrew is "hard" but Mandarin isn't? You sure you're not projecting on that one?

[b]There was thread, can't remember which one, where it talked about poor children being frustrated because they were forced to learn a difficult language like Hebrew. As an AA mom, I think that's clear code language.[/b][/quote]

Of course you can't remember the thread because it doesn't exist.

Hebrew is a difficult language FOR ALL CHILDREN, and it is not a common language. While there have been many posts about how difficult the language is, there is not a single one saying that poor or AA children are especially frustrated by Hebrew, so stop with this fake racist theory. You're really getting tiresome with this idiotic accusation.

Hebrew is a hard language for everyone. It is a language spoken by few people, meaning all kids will wrestle with a language they will have little use for in the future (unless they move to Israel.) and, as such, it's not a language whose immersion meets anyone's needs.

Even in this very thread, more people talk about the geographic convenience of a charter school, not about the importance of the specific language being taught.
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