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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder.  Clearly people wouldn't be going into Hebrew or Mandarin or Spanish or whatever if they didn't have some ideas about its usefulness.[/quote]

I hope you're not this naive or this UNclear. People chosing SELA has more to do with there being nothing else available than Hebrew's usefulness. Believe me, if SELA was Spanish or Mandarin immersion, people would be tearing the hinges off the door to get it. People are SETTLING for SELA because they'd rather have this option than NOTHING. DENIAL from these SELA boosters is more than obnoxious- it's SAD!!! [/quote]

I think there must be a twelve step program for this level of narcissism where you believe you have any insight into what other parents think when they fill out applications. Do you think people are settling for Sela in a way they are not settling for any other new school on the market when little Sienna or Jasper gets rejected by LAMB or Brent or wherever. Crack is whack. [/quote]

PP who asked if posters like this last PP are naive or unclear, do you feel like your question is answered?  This last person actually thinks Sela is starting in the same place as Mundo Verde or Yu Ying.  Honestly, to all the folks sincerely trying to reality check the Sela folks as confused as this person (and I'm sure it can't be ALL Sela supporters who are this misinformed, because the school couldn't have gotten approved if they were), at this point isn't it pretty clear people believe what they believe and won't be swayed.  It really will be the actual enrollment and retention that shows where the general draws of bilingual education and the draws of specific languages diverge.  Sela has to show it's sustainable with a majority non-Jewish student body, and this last poster sees no difference between a start up Hebrew school and start up Mandarin or Spanish.  There is no point trying to explain.  We all just need to see how it plays out.[/quote]

I actually think Sela is starting in the same place as Creative Minds or IT or Two Rivers - or any new school. And I have been DC long enough to remember all of the crazy reaction to YY when it first started. I'm not even a Sela supporter, I actually oppose charter schools in general - and I can be smug like that because my children had a great neighborhood school and I can afford to send them to an excellent private high school. Because I work in education  I haven been following these threads, and I have to say there is a lot of anti-Sela rhetoric that seems pretty unearned. Though I agree that the market is the ultimate dictator whether any charter flourishes our fails. And even though I am opposed to charters,  I try to have a positive will towards any new school, because after all, it's about children having more opportunities. I wish other DCUM people could have this capacity as well.

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