San Antonio and the Jewish Community

    After reading Dr. Chancey's article, I was curious to see if their were any schools in San Antonio that taught religion classes. Unfortunately none do which is interesting because we have many religious private and charter schools. Maybe this is why the public schools do not offer any religion classes because they could always go to one of these alternative schools. This is just a theory, albeit a very bad one, rationalizing why these courses are not offered. Another reason could be because since about 30% of San Antonio's population consists of Catholics which a lot of private schools cater to. Fortunately students can form clubs to talk about their own religious beliefs but in my experience, as well as looking on the web, the most common club that is formed are Christian groups like the Christian Fellowship Association.
No public school in San Antonio, that I know of, has a organization that caters for the Jewish community.       However, with the examples that Dr. Chancey provides when discussing how Judaism is taught in public schools is disturbing. These classes contain "the theme that the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament consists of numerous prophecies fulfilled in the New Testament permeates some courses" which is not a very academic way of teaching those courses (41). They try and draw any comparison they can about how the Hebrew bible relates to Jesus.
     In San Antonio there is one charter school that caters to the Jewish community called the Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy located on NW Military Hwy. This school caters to the needs of the Jewish children by not only providing the standard education required by the state of Texas, but also offering classes on the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history and Hebrew language. There has been a lot of attention on this school because there is no separation of the church and the school but is that really problematic? In this one article, Trying to Keep Religion Out of Charter School Classes Egar Walters, he talks about the school and how it is run. In my opinion I don't see why anyone should have a problem with it. Here is a place where these children could go to learn about their religious culture without having it skewed based on the beliefs of a teacher. My question is though is why have the San Antonio schools not permitted religious classes even though there is the a law that says they can? Then should the private and charter schools be looked criticized because they allow their students to partake in these classes?