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[quote=Anonymous][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. [/quote]

What about the fact that pretty much every DCPS, even up here in ward 3, is majority Christian with majority Christian staff?  How do we manage to avoid religion at lunch and recess?  The answer is, we don't.  Kids talk about what they hear at home, which is why my son came home last year talking about "the baby Jesus."  I went to a public, non-charter HS that was 90% Jewish, and religion had zero role in our day-to-day education--but the non-Jewish kids certainly all knew when Hanukkah was, because we all talked at it at lunch (the gifts we got, not the Macabees).  Such is the life of the cultural minority.  That has nothing to do with the formal role of religion in a school--which will be none at the proposed Hebrew charter, since it's a public school.

(All of that said, I would never send my kids to the Hebrew charter, nor would most of the Jewish families I know.) [/quote]

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