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[quote=Anonymous]My kid graduated a couple of years ago, so I may be out of date, but the Fillmore program always struck me as wildly age-inappropriate.  They tried to get kids to do things that the average kid in the class wasn't ready for, maybe one kid was, but the rest just sort of faked it.

I also wasn't thrilled by the amount of time spent riding the bus. Many of the kids seemed to not enjoy the bus ride.  Many of the teachers were artists who weren't skilled at educating, although word I hear is that has improved.

I was on my school's LSAT, and I can tell you that Fillmore was popular for a whole lot of reasons that had nothing to do with art. The big one is that the cost to the schools of participating in Fillmore is less than the cost of having music and art teachers on staff, so the school was able to satisfy the art and music requirement with a smaller chunk of the budget. Also, the way Fillmore worked was that the entire school went to Fillmore on the same day, which made it possible to have staff meetings and prep time every week. Our school was chronically overcrowded so if art and music were done in-house there would be no place other than the classroom, the Fillmore facility is better.[/quote]

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