Talk:Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

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Please delete this entire page, or else rework it to be NPOV. As it stands, it appears that someone just cut and pasted the promotional brochure of the school directly into onto Wikipedia. The use of "we," "us," etc. is a dead giveaway.Narsil27 15:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

maybe I should dispute this page's neutrality. AndrewAL 22:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I have to disagree.

[edit] For anyone who actually reads this slide

If you read this slide, take note of the subtext under Judiacs. It is important to recognize that some of the student body is not eager about Minyan, include it as information regarding what the students actually think, not what the people have posted to get others to think. However there is a group of students who feel a strong connection to Judaism such as those in the Sephardic and Orthodox minyan.

[edit] I hereby dispute the neutrality of this page

This page maintains no neutrality whatsoever, It only shows the few upsides of the school, while putting no criticism sections about the 20% of the seniors admitted in an anonyms survey that they had used marijuana in their stay at JDS. The school also claims to have state of the art facilities while the upper school art room is no bigger then 2 & 1/2 office blocks put together. Computers and technology classes are largely ignored and kept at an extraordinarily low priority. The page would be best suited deleted from Wikipedia.

-A JDS student

Has anything been published about this? Lion's Tale could be an acceptable source for criticism of this type, I suppose. We can only include this info if it's verifiable. nadav (talk) 06:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

also the so called motto "...You shall teach them diligently to your children", well I haven't heard it once in my 4 years at the school. There are many sources of critisesm for this article, I'll bring this up to the school faculty once classes resume.-A JDS student

Feel free to expand the article and make it more neutral (this is the "encyclopedia anyone can edit" after all), but make sure any info you add (especially if it's negative) is cited to a reliable secondary source. nadav (talk) 04:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree. It also doesn't talk about the fact that all but one of the 5th grade teachers are leaving because the administration treats teachers so badly, nor does it mention that the Israel trip in 2006 was destroyed because the school does not expose their students to any information about drugs or alcohol. It doesn't mention that Gerry Nussbaum, the principle that built JDS into the "largest day school in DC" was forced out of her job by the headmaster, or that the COO, Susan Siegel was also the COO for Temple Beth El when the then-Head Rabbi Maltzman when he was forced to resign for supposed embezzlement. Lastly, it doesn't talk about the blatant favoritism and Nepotism displayed by the upper levels of administration. And to add to this they discriminate Sephardic families with no justification-Former JDS Student

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Not to mention that:

1. JDS has actually kicked out a terrific headmaster (Prager) because he put education over money -- i.e., he wasn't the suave politician-type fund raiser that they wanted (so they got Cannon)

2. JDS has virtually no music or art department. All the music and art courses were ad hoc; the equipment is broken and replacing it is a low priority, as with computers. The music and art teachers are always an after thought. Similar things happen in the math department, to a lesser extent. In short, every department aside from English gets neglected in JDS.

3. The administration officials routinely either underfund or bully faculty, which is why so many excellent teachers (like certain science teachers) left.

JDS has many flaws, so this article is *far* from neutral. But a separate issue, aside from the objectivity of the article:

  WHY IN THE WORLD DOES CES JDS DESERVE A WIKIPEDIA PAGE?

It's one of many private Jewish schools in the U.S. Big deal.

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It deserves a wikipedia page because there are many things to say about it that are verifiable and were written in reliable sources. In other words, it meets the notability requirements. I encourage everyone to include any relevant facts about JDS that can be cited to such sources. nadav (talk) 21:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)