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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. In the pre-high-school years, I'm willing to trade off classroom time spent on 'pure' academics in return for substantially more time spent on arts subjects.

I went to a school for the creative and performing arts for part of my childhood -- in a different part of the US, of course. There was daily art, daily general music, daily chorus, daily drama, and daily PE. There was a period in my school day that I could use for instrument practice time. I spent more time in arts classes than in academic classes, and the academics were fast-paced and compressed. But the academics weren't low-quality; the assumption was that the students were bright and capable of learning academics without repetition (and that kids should be pushed to think critically, to write well, etc.)[/quote]

Explain more about the timing. The average elementary day is 6.5 hours. Even if you only spent only 30 minutes a day on each of the things you named, with no transition time, and 30 minutes for lunch  with no recess, that would leave only 3 hours for reading/writing/math/social studies/science combined. That would be approximately 36 minutes/day for each core subject. 
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OP again. By "compressed academics" I meant that the amount of the day spent on traditional academics was indeed shortened. I don't remember the length of the academic periods, but my best guess is that maybe two hours of the day were devoted to "homeroom" which contained the academic subjects. Instruction was integrated, though. The drama class had a heavy language arts component, and the social studies had a heavy writing component. Math and science were integrated.[/quote]

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