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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arts minor? Shorter days?

Stop this now.

Provide better arts training in middle school. Make your kids write. Take them to more museums. Encourage them to develop their passions. It's a pre-professional school. If arts is not your thing, that school is not your place.

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True, DCPS needs to raise its game on the arts. But that school does seem to be operating at well below full utilization.

Also, arts should not just be treated as job training! So the pre professional approach while useful is also restrictive. [/quote]

Pre-professional is the specific difference between a "school of the arts" and a school with an arts program. To manage the demands of advanced arts instruction you must have the ambition to pursue it professionally. The decision to do so is your own, of course, but Ellington routinely loses students who just thought they were taking art class only to realize rehearsal that three-plus intense hours of actual work doing the art was not at all what they bargained for.[/quote]

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