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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools that use Fillmore are oversubscribed and there is no physical space to add arts and music programming in those schools. So until DCPS and DGS actually engage in some facilities planning to add classrooms, bringing arts programming in house is not feasible and Fillmore continues to be a necessity. I think most parents would be fine to lose Fillmore (and the time spent on bussing) so long as it’s replaced with quality arts instruction. DCPS has not shown that it’s given any thought to this however. Planning is not dcps’s strong suit. So every year or two parents are forced to rally and advocate like crazy when we’re all to busy. Not to mention what it does to the Fillmore staff to have to constantly face losing their jobs. [/quote]

I imagine it would be hard to recruit and maintain morale the way DCPS treats the place.

But I do agree most parents aren't committed to it in and of itself, but they know if it is not there their schools cannot offer the same arts programming so they support it. 
There should be a committee to come up with viable solutions for those schools with no space, build the spaces, move the arts budgets back to the schools to manage, and then close Fillmore.  That is a reasonable order for things. Not just close and leave schools without arts space. And we can avoid the rinse and repeat nonsense that someone so eloquently described above.

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