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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You anti-enrichment, anti-education people scare me.  Read a few of the dozens of studies on the positive impact that incorporating the arts in education has on learning and then repost.

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Why I send my children to private school.[/quote]

Please keep your children in private school so they will not have to mingle with the common folk.  [/quote]

Trust me, we are common folk.  Do you really think that all families in privates are super wealthy elitists?  We just value a well-rounded educational experience for our children.  For all children.

But you can't get that in public school, so we pony up for private.  Our decision where to send our children to school has ZERO to do with demographics or socio-economic levels and everything to do with curricula and quality of instruction. [/quote]\

+1.  The lack of "extras," including PE and art, is one of the main reasons we stretch our budget to send send our kids to private school.  We want our kids to be well-rounded and strongly believe in the importance of a well-rounded education.  I won't go so far at to say that we're "common folk," but we're not rich elitists either.   The demographics at our private school don't differ that much from the demographics at our public.

I don't think knowing how to create art per se is necessary for success, but I do believe that knowing how to think creatively is.  The value in classes like art, theater and music is that they do just this.  [/quote]

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