Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very happy to have Sela as an option for my non-Jewish baby, the children on Benning Road, and the rest of DC children. Excited to have great languages like Hebrew and Mandarin to pick from for our already Spanish bilingual child! What a world we live in!

if your child was speeking English only, I wonder if you would really pick Hebrew for his full immersion school.

also, I wonder which languages are not great IYO

Well, honestly, if my child didn't "speek" [sic] Spanish - I'm not sure I would put them in a Spanish immersion school, since (biased here) I think Spanish is a pretty easy language to pick up as an adult and there are so many opportunities to learn Spanish in this area. I happen to think Hebrew is a great language and am excited for my DC to learn it - I never had an opportunity for bilingual education, at her age any way. Of course, I try to be a non-judgmental person (and I think it's pretty ugly, actually, to assign negative values to world languages as if there are "better" languages than other (witness the Mandarin -Cantonese cat fighting on the other threads) - it smacks of something pretty dark in our humanity to devalue cultures/civilizations/races/people, etc.) and I think it's important to teach my children to be global citizens and appreciate differences and new opportunities for language learning...but I guess haters will keep hating

Not really, those are European languages. Chinese, Arabic, etc. are languages that are highly desired by employers and likely to be in the future. Not sure European languages and those in particular will be needed. Plus, English is more wide spread in Europe than any of those 13:55 mentioned.

It's as close to those other Semite languages as German is to Dutch or Danish: for somebody learning German as a second language -even immersion- you would never (easily) understand those other two languages.
And while we are talking about this: Wouldn't it make more sense to have a German immersion instead of a Hebrew one if "another language group" is key?

Hebrew is a good choice as its from another language group than English, Spanish and Chinese. Plus its close in many ways to Arabic and Aramaic, as a Semite language. The more and different language immersion program offerings the better!

Anonymous wrote:Very happy to have Sela as an option for my non-Jewish baby, the children on Benning Road, and the rest of DC children. Excited to have great languages like Hebrew and Mandarin to pick from for our already Spanish bilingual child! What a world we live in!

if your child was speeking English only, I wonder if you would really pick Hebrew for his full immersion school.

also, I wonder which languages are not great IYO

Very happy to have Sela as an option for my non-Jewish baby, the children on Benning Road, and the rest of DC children. Excited to have great languages like Hebrew and Mandarin to pick from for our already Spanish bilingual child! What a world we live in!

Good to have another option but wish it were for a better language than modern Hebrew! (And I am mom to a Jewish baby so no anti semitism here.)

Sorry...their options!

Poor black people shouldn't know there options??? Shame on you!

Benning is an interesting choice for open house...

What's DCUM?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do a search here and you will find a LOT of threads on Sela.

I see that, but not from Sela people providing real information like open house times. I notice a lot of the other schools seem to post her directly. They might not know about DCUM yet.

they know about DCUM

Anonymous wrote:Do a search here and you will find a LOT of threads on Sela.

I see that, but not from Sela people providing real information like open house times. I notice a lot of the other schools seem to post her directly. They might not know about DCUM yet.

Do a search here and you will find a LOT of threads on Sela.

I just got this on the Petworth list, I'm surprised they didn't post on DCUM:

Sela Public Charter School is a new charter school opening this August in the Ward 4 neighborhood of Takoma, DC. Conveniently located near public transportation, Sela PCS will be the only public charter school in the country where all instruction will be done in both English and Hebrew. Sela PCS will offer FREE Before and After Care for all enrolled families and is seeking applicants for the first classes of Pre-K (4 year olds), Kindergarten, and Grade 1, growing each year adding additional grades.

To learn more, visit us at one of our upcoming city-wide information sessions and open houses: Tuesday, February 19th @ 7pm: School Choice Forum, 1500 Harvard Street, NW (Columbia Heights), Wednesday, February 27th @ 6pm: Boys and Girls Club, 4103 Benning Road, NE (Benning), and Tuesday, March 5th @ 6pm: Riggs Park Baptist Church, 5998 Chillum Pl, NE (Takoma, DC).

Sela Public Charter School
office: 202-670-SELA (7352)
Visit us: www.SelaPCS.org
Follow us: @SelaPCS
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