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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

You do know, Dr, that SELA is a modern Hebrew immersion program, not an "ancient Hebrew" immersion school, right?

As for the PP all het up about immersion for immersion's sake, accusing anyone who doubts the usefulness of Hebrew language immersion of racism , check your facts. There are not 13+million modern Hebrew speakers. There are 7 million. Tops. Most of whom reside in Israel, where the dominant language of business is....English.

You want to line up for SELA, more power to you. But when your child struggles with the language and you realize they will never use it, don't complain and don't dare wish for another Spanish immersion program in its place.

+100

SELA boosters, please come back in 5 years.

And, to the supposed oncologist (scary if that's the case) who attacked Greek & Latin while boosting Hebrew as the source of all Western law...please educate yourself (in any language you want to):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/mores/legallatin/legal01.htm

Holy shit - how stupid are you??

You're offended by the idea of an oncologist who speaks Hebrew? Would you be similarly offended by a ballet dancer who speaks Russian?

You're a f*cking idiot.

Just go away. Contaminate yourself online elsewhere - perhaps where the Kardashians are admired, as opposed to reviled.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I didn't see where anyone expressed offense at an oncologist speaking Hebrew, but it is offensive to see folks misstating facts about language, etymology and history.

I thought the point of talking schools was to promote education, fact-based learning and enlightenment. Evidently I was mistaken.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

You do know, Dr, that SELA is a modern Hebrew immersion program, not an "ancient Hebrew" immersion school, right?

As for the PP all het up about immersion for immersion's sake, accusing anyone who doubts the usefulness of Hebrew language immersion of racism , check your facts. There are not 13+million modern Hebrew speakers. There are 7 million. Tops. Most of whom reside in Israel, where the dominant language of business is....English.

You want to line up for SELA, more power to you. But when your child struggles with the language and you realize they will never use it, don't complain and don't dare wish for another Spanish immersion program in its place.

+100

SELA boosters, please come back in 5 years.

And, to the supposed oncologist (scary if that's the case) who attacked Greek & Latin while boosting Hebrew as the source of all Western law...please educate yourself (in any language you want to):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/mores/legallatin/legal01.htm

Anonymous wrote:As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pp ignores the many benefits of language immersion that go far beyond practical usage of the language.

Very true, but in that case we want classic Greek and Latin way before Hebrew. Btw, if this is a thread about DCI, why don't sela boosters open their own thread?

And why do we want classical Greek before Hebrew and who is WE and who gets to decide "what serves DC"? I am not a Sela booster, just a woman of color who wants language options for my children. But I have to say there is more than a smack of racism and/or paternalism on DCUM. Upper middle class white folks spewing under the cloak of anonymity about what they feel the poor black children of DC want or need. And in my book, that's "disgusting." I want my children to go to a solid school where they have exposure to another language. I don't believe in the concept of inferior and superior languages. The need to constantly pick on Sela is most curious (more racism?). Modern Greek is spoken by about 12 million people, Hebrew by about 13+ million plus. Something tells me no one would be going after a Greek language charter. Charter schools are a function of the market. It's not the Charter School Board's to do market testing, it's their job to find well organized schools with a solid working model. If no parents are interested, nobody shows up, and the school doesn't happen. I had to wait a long time to get through the crowd at Sela's table where there were more parents with skin tones similar to mine holding up the line filling up applications. Some of you all need to do some soul-searching about why you think YOU get to decide what MY children, and children with less resources than my children, learn.

Anonymous wrote:

As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

You do know, Dr, that SELA is a modern Hebrew immersion program, not an "ancient Hebrew" immersion school, right?

As for the PP all het up about immersion for immersion's sake, accusing anyone who doubts the usefulness of Hebrew language immersion of racism , check your facts. There are not 13+million modern Hebrew speakers. There are 7 million. Tops. Most of whom reside in Israel, where the dominant language of business is....English.

You want to line up for SELA, more power to you. But when your child struggles with the language and you realize they will never use it, don't complain and don't dare wish for another Spanish immersion program in its place.

As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

Anonymous wrote:As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!

Anonymous wrote:As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late!