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My problem with a Hebrew charter is different from all that. It looks like it's designed just to appeal to a small religious minority in Ward 3, so they can leave the rest of us shlubs behind in mediocre DCPS.  [b]I don't think the charter movement was meant to promote this sort of segregation by ethnicity or narrow academic interest.[/b][/quote]

This is the problem, IMO. To the extent that anybody supports charters in DC, it's because they provide new opportunities to people who had limited opportunities. Charters allow the college-bound to escape their bad local publics. Charters provide STEM and immersion in widely-spoken languages to kids who would otherwise go to Ballou. They provide vo-tech training to kids who won't be going to college.

But providing immersion in a language spoken by very few people seems to be going in the other direction, of pulling a group that everybody here seems to agree is economically advantaged, and smart to boot, out of the existing public and charter school system.  Almost allowing them to wall themselves off in their own little world.  I can't see DC going for this.

* To be absolutely clear, and to ward off the nutty PP, I'm not worried that a Hebrew charter would be overtly religious or that it would proselytize.[/quote]

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