Naftali-

If you mean to say that no public school should offer a particular linguistic/ cultural curriculum, then you'd be right in saying that KGIA should be private. We should then close down the Harvey Milk school (for gay kids), and any number of public schools which offer intensive coursework in Hispanic or Asian language and culture. No one has suggested doing this, at least very forcefully.

Only 25% of the enrolled kids were Arabic and religion was to be taught only to the extent that the religious aspects of a culture are routinely taught in such settings. "The Bible as Literature", that sort of thing. So no, there was no resemblance to a private religious school. 

Insisting that all public schools be identical is a coherent point of view, but the fact that it was mobilized in this case by the same bunch of right-wing Zionists who dine well to the degree that they convince Joe Public that every cabbie and felafel-slinger in NYC has friended Osama Bin Laden on his MySpace should make the even minimally aware vertebrate suspicious.

The moronic Cori C provides a useful case in point, but her remarks are so stupefyingly bereft of even the tiniest shred of well-formed argument that they deserve no comment. Hey, Cori....Boo! We're here, we're swarthy, get used to it.