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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see the problem here. So what if they delay an auditorium for a couple of years? [/quote]

Are they delaying the courses that require an auditorium? No. They are trying to pretend like every school will play nice and share what limited space they have available. It’s such as a shame how little MCPS values or understands the performing arts. Have you not paid attention to decades of brain research? [/quote]

They'd just practice and hold concerts and plays at another location.[/quote]

That magical land of endless auditoriums that children can teleport to and be back for their next class! Tell the Council the problem is solved![/quote]

Indeed.  MCPS certainly can tell Strathmore to move out for several years so they can use the facility... :roll:[/quote]

There are days available.   Or, other places in Rockville, like the Fitzgerald theater.  They can use other schools too.  [/quote]

You have no idea how HS performing arts programs work, do you?

PS -- Strathmore is losing its Pike & Rose location and having to utilize the main center more.  Even if that remark about MCPS using it weren't tongue-in-cheek, those "days available" aren't vwry likely to be there.[/quote]

Of course I do as I have a high level musician. Mcps is a joke and fun class.  A lot of our kids preform outside mcps.  Or, they just share another school auditorium.

[b]The pike and rose Strathmore is not something that would work[/b].  You clearly don’t have a child performing outside mcps. [/quote]

As stated, the Pike & Rose closure will have some of those perfomances taking up space at the [i]main hall[/i] -- which was put out there in the first place as a hyperbolic example of something MCPS could commandeer at their whim in lieu of an on-campus facility, but then suggested by another as being available some days (as though it was a real option).  Pike & Rose wasn't suggested as the place to use, itself.

You don't seem to have a grasp of [i]HS[/i] performing arts programs -- the logistics required to make productions happen that underline the need for proximate space, the real limitations for many, many students/families without the resources for private programs (Why on earth are we talking about that as a substitute for MCPS programming?!?), the existing demand for space at other schools, etc., etc.[/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about.  And, the [b]private groups have scholarships[/b].   So, clearly you aren’t involve them.  [/quote]

Really?!  You don't say!

Thanks for making it clear that area private groups are well enough funded to take on the role of addressing the arts education needs (including associated transportation) for the 20k+ MCPS high schoolers who demonstrate need.  Where's the website for signups?  :roll:[/quote]

You can transport your own kids like the rest of us do... there are lots of private groups that offier financial aid.  Somehow I doubt you need it but just too lazy to do extra things outside MCPS with your kids since it takes effort on your part.

Swim is not at the schools.  And, yet it still seems to work and MCPS will not provide transportation.  Why not advocate for a pool at ever school?  The decent parents are driving your kids since you refuse to.[/quote]

Ah...ad hominem attack (and off the mark, to boot).  How sweet!  You really [i]don't[/i] have anything substantive to say here.

Swim is an extracurricular (false equivalence, if not something of a red herring).  At least from your statement, there, we can take it that it is provided for (or, in this case, not provided for) equitably -- everyone has to arrange for their own transport off-site.

We are talking, in this topic, about the needs of academic programs in the arts, and the failure of MCPS to provide those programs at this school the necessary/adequate facilities available elsewhere (which, in general, happen to be used by high schools for not-insignificant purposes, besides).[/quote]

The arts are no different.  They can practice in classrooms and do things offsite.  Some of the private groups rent space at the high schools.  Lots of options.  We do several music programs outside mcps.  Other high schools can share their space.  Wj is very close.  [/quote]

If you are talking about music programs for parents and children, yes you have to go private. MCPS music is for enrolled students.[/quote]

Of course MCPS programs are for students in MCPS.  Except none, or at least at our school, are very high level so the only way to have your high level musician be challenged with their peers is to do private.

However, some of the private groups rent out space in the MCPS schools on the evenings and weekends as well as the auditoriums.  No reason why schools cannot share until the Woodward one is built.[/quote]

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