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Beginning To Grow
Twerry years after its founding, Ann Arbor's Hebrew
Day School hopes to add a middle school.
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wenty years ago, He-
brew Day School in
Ann Arbor opened
with one class of 12
and a teacher in a small
room in Congregation
Beth Israel.
Now, with just over 100
students in kindergarten
through fifth grade, the
Solomon Schecter school
located in the Ann Arbor
Jewish Community Cen-
ter is considering adding a
middle school.
Like many other schools
in the Detroit metropoli-
tan area, Hebrew Day School of
Ann Arbor is going through a
slight growth phase. Enrollment
is up to a new high, with an in-
coming kindergarten class of 26
and a first-grade class that re-
quires two rooms to house the
students.
But it is really the push of a
group of parents with children in
the third- and fourth-grade class-
es that is fueling the considera-
tion for the expansion. Without
their support, said principal Mar-
lene Gitelman, the project will not
move forward.
"They have to want it," she
said. "They have to support it.
You can't just say you are going
to do this and expect people to en-
roll their children."
And they do want it. Ms. Gitel-
man said the parents are moti-
vated to provide a middle school
for their children, in part because
they feel the early adolescent
years are important for estab-
lishing a strong Jewish identi-
ty.
"Preteens and teens pay more
attention to what their peer
groups want them to do than
what their family wants them to
do," she said. "Some of those
things include not being able to
do things on Friday night and not
being able to eat in certain
places."
"But if your peer group from
school is Jewish, these things are
not a problem," she said. •
Gina Sanchez, a history
professor at the University of
Michigan and a parent of a
fourth-grade student, believes the
middle school education will pro-
vide more than a Jewish peer
group for her son. She hopes it
will provide strong Jewish roots
as well as a quality secular edu-
cation.
"We want the kind of educa-
tion that will prepare our chil-
dren for a full Jewish life as well
as a full life in a very diverse,
multiculttu-al kind of society," she
said.
Robert Savit, another parent,