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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the real deal - despite the fact that Game of Thrones was the top story on every news show for a week, water cooler conversations begin and end with what came on TV, we all talk about certain music being the soundtrack of our lives, Amazon got popular by selling books and millions of people come to DC to visit museums, we still have only one school for 50 miles that takes training young people in those fields seriously. Yet we complain that 40-something slots go (legally)  to MD.VA residents who pay tuition. Should we not be asking why the hell those areas don't have a similar program? Why DC only has one? Why do people want to dumb it down by adding students who are not serious about the arts? Why the city was willing to overspend on a building but not fully fund the arts education? These are the real questions.[/quote]

Amen.[/quote]

I agree in part.  But the arts is not just not job training. There is a flaw in thinking about and doing arts education in DC - it is so thought of as a pre professional or industry entry pathway. This is why DCPS does not take it seriously enough because art education is job training. Art for arts sake would be taking art seriously. To be "serious about the arts" does not need to mean that you aspire as a 10th grader to get a job in the arts. [/quote]

To get a job or study an art in college.

Let’s put it another way. Ellington’s program requires 3 hrs a day x 180 school days x 4 years in one discipline, on top of your academic work. Is it the only to be serious about art - absolutely not. But for those who want it, and who often don’t have the resources to pursue arts through private lessons and so forth, it is a great option.  [/quote][/quote]

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