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Anonymous wrote:Sela parent here of 2nd grader since prek4 and thrilled! DC is thriving. We got into a closer HRCS and toured and it was a disorganized mess. Plus, it taught Spanish but kids didn't learn anything (20 minutes once or twice a week). DC speaks Hebrew fluently. The commute is the worst part so we drive reverse commute to fort Totten, park there, metro to/from work and then drive home reverse commute.

I think this is awesome. I put them on my list (#10 but I'm wondering if I should move them up on the list). I will be living in fort totten and my daughter will be in prek4. I'm also going to attend their open house. I have them below center city petworth and center city brightwood but I'm wondering if I should put Sela above those two?

You should look at last year's lottery results - put the schools with the bigger waitlists higher up. I don't know if any of those schools had waitlists by the time school started? Also look at student/family retention (are those stats available for School Year 16-17?). The schools with more turnover you might want to rate lower. No idea among those 3 schools who has most turnover, I would think all 3 do.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend has her kid at Sela and loves it. The kid also loves it and comes back singing in hebrew. Very cute. The teachers (PreK-3) are amazing and the kids seems to enjoy the school. Tier 1 and still relatively easy to get it. I would guess that this won't last and it will be soon as hard to get into Sela that it is to the "others" immersion schools (Yu Ying, Lamb, MV, Stokes...)

Hebrew is a much less sought after language, so I doubt it will ever be as popular, no matter how strong the school is.

I was about to write the same thing. Great that there are families there who love it, it's never a bad thing to have schools that make people happy. But no way will it ever be as popular as schools teaching languages with much more application in the business world here and internationally. Really can't compare in terms of the usability of Spanish, Chinese and French in business and travel vs. Hebrew.

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Anonymous wrote:Sela parent here of 2nd grader since prek4 and thrilled! DC is thriving. We got into a closer HRCS and toured and it was a disorganized mess. Plus, it taught Spanish but kids didn't learn anything (20 minutes once or twice a week). DC speaks Hebrew fluently. The commute is the worst part so we drive reverse commute to fort Totten, park there, metro to/from work and then drive home reverse commute.

I think this is awesome. I put them on my list (#10 but I'm wondering if I should move them up on the list). I will be living in fort totten and my daughter will be in prek4. I'm also going to attend their open house. I have them below center city petworth and center city brightwood but I'm wondering if I should put Sela above those two?

I definitely would put Sela above those. It's a wonderful community!

Thank you! It's good to actually talk to a parent of a child in the school instead of a bunch of people who don't really know about the school

Bridges and Inspired Teaching are two more schools that are very easy commutes from Fort Totten.

I would guess Bridges Tier 3 ranking this year might make it easier to get into and I'd be inclined to put the school above Sela (but facilities is more important than language to us).

Anonymous wrote:What is the content of the school's curriculum on the history and current political situation in the Middle East?

hmm....this I have no clue

What is the content of the school's curriculum on the history and current political situation in the Middle East?