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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no one wants tp talk about sela?!  DCUM gets some schools wrong, and this is one (Bannaker is another).[/quote]

There are so few students there it is easy to overlook. [/quote]

NP. There are few students at SS and their is a 4 page thread about that. In fact, they are saying they scored so low because it's a small school. Well, SELA managed to pull it off.

Congrats SELA!!! Well done is such short amount of time. [/quote]

No one talks about SELA because so few people want their kids learning Hebrew. Talk about a useless language.[/quote]

SELA will never receive the kudos it deserves because of the ignorance and undercurrent of antisemitism on this site.  [/quote]

I'm Jewish, and turned down a spot at Sela for my kid a couple of years ago because I don't think fluency in conversational Hebrew is all that useful. We're still sending our children to Hebrew school on the weekends. I assure you, it's not anti-Semitism that motivated my skepticism about the school's mission.[/quote]

I still find it so bizarre that Sela is 70%+ black.[/quote]

Why?  It’s a good school in a predominantly black neighborhood. Also, the brain benefits of bilingualism are about more then learning a functional skill.

I find the obsession this board has with Sela to have its roots in antisemitism. I’m not Jewish or a Sela parent I just find the tone DC parents have towards Sela to be odd.  Irrationally negative.

I wish them nothing but the best and am glad that they provide a good education to our city’s children. [/quote]

Agreed. Not a Sela parent, but I've seen enough anti-semitic remarks on this forum when the school is mentioned. Like a PP said, it's an undercurrent, and it's very discouraging to see. I think it's great for kids to learn a language not of their own culture. It's encouraging to see the cross cultural bridges being built. And think of the college admissions and professional opportunities these children will one day have by being non-Jewish or even non-white children who learned Hebrew! Definitely something to stand out on college and job applications.[/quote]

It's ridiculous, unless my child was a high achiever or spoke a comparable language in the home this is not helpful. Look at the issues raised re. Chinese/Mandarin, unless you get to practice fluency you are not expanding your brain by learning two languages, if that was the case language learners wouldn't have the lowest scores in the District. Being bilingual on its own does not make you proficient at anything, many EL students struggle in DCPS precisely because when they are not in school they speak their dominant language at home![/quote]

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