The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2018 - Page 8
Youth Visions
Hebrew High Registration is Now Online
Learn Why Your Teen Should Attend Hebrew High
Registration for the Consol
idated High School of Jewish
Studies of Charlotte, aka Hebrew
High, is now open and online.
We are very excited that we have
moved away from paper registra
tion forms and are now complete
ly online. Are you on the fence
if you want to sign up your son/
daughter? Check out these top
five frequently asked questions
and then go to www.hebrewhigh.
org to register.
1. My child is so busy, working
hard in order to get into a good
college, so they don’t have time.
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Scott Menaker, DDS, FAGD
Tricia Rodney, DDS
(704) 377-2503
2711 Randolph Road • Suite 205 • Chariotte, NC 28207
As reported by college per
sonnel and former students, a
transcript showing five years of
class work from Hebrew High
demonstrates to an admissions of
ficers not only that the student has
participated in an impressive ed
ucational endeavor, but also that
s/he probably has the ability to
follow through on commitments
and has had time to develop a
solid identity. Nationally, most
students applying to universities
have similar grade point averag
es and comparable examination
scores. Extracurricular activities
make the difference.
2. My child participates in var
sity sports, s/he might need to be
absent for several weeks during
his/her sport season.
Many students at Hebrew High
are in a varsity activities. We are
always willing to work with you
and your teen to work out an eq
uitable solution. The goal is keep
your child in this positive Jewish
environment and the door is al
ways open whenever s/he is able
to attend.
5. My high school student is
involved in youth group. I’m not
sure that it is important for him/
her to also spend time in an aca
demic setting where there may be
little time to socialize.
While the high school ful
fills an educational function, and
youth groups fulfill a social role,
the high school does offer many
“social” experiences for teens.
Beyond the time before and after
classes and the 10-minute break
between classes for “lounge,”
class time too can, in a sense,
be considered “social time.” It
is often more healthful and less
threatening to meet people in a
national environment life a class
room than in an awkward social
setting where everyone’s motive
is to “match up.”
4. I always had to fight with
my child to get him/her to go to
Hebrew School. I’m not sure that
this is a battle I want to fight.
The battle is worth fighting if
quantitative as well as qualitative
Jewish survival is important to
you. All data indicates the more
hours of Jewish education, the
greater the likelihood of adult
Jewish identification. Additional
ly, an education ended at an early
age means that, as an adult, this
person will understand Judaism
in an unsophisticated and childish
way. (It would be comparable to
ending one’s English or mathe
matics education at age 12 or 13.)
Regarding fighting battles with
children, most psychologist and
educators (whether secular or Ju
daic) point out that a child’s lack
of desire in attending a class or
activity has little to do with the
content or namre of the class and
a lot to do with the child’s recog
nition of the parent’s ambivalence
on the subject. More concretely,
when a child knows that secular
or Hebrew school is nonnegotia-
ble, s/he generally will not bother
arguing or fighting about attend
ing.
5. My child is already a soph
omore, junior, senior. Isn’t it too
late?
Adolescents have specific de
velopmental tasks whether they
are freshman or seniors. Their
main task is that of figuring out
and then establishing their fault
identity. They have a need to
explore, to challenge, and to
question and then to fit all these
puzzle pieces together to form an
identity. We know that you want
Judaism to be one of those piec
es. Your child has an urgency and
a right to explore all aspects of
Jewish knowledge, beliefs, and to
be exposed to a variety of Jewish
role models. S/he also has a need
to learn Jewish subjects with
similar sophistication and com-
prehensives as s/he learns secu
lar subjects. Hebrew High is the
only opportunity in Charlotte that
strives to meet these needs. It is
never too late to begin to attend
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