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[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]

Fully agree.  For example -the closing of Fillmore arts center art instruction in elementary schools who used Fillmore will be pressed to close their meager arts rooms, and cut their arts teachers as the usual budget pressure come and go each year and as school administrators focus on the things they get regarded for - math and reading test scores.  Fixing this dynamic is impossible I would say. Unless someone takes up arts funding with either the Chancellor or the Council. [/quote]

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