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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP you are totally ignorant. sorry.  Fillmore coming to tiny schools to squeeze into small spaces (like cafeterias, classrooms teachers need to be prepared for other lessons) is not nearly the enriching experience it is for kids to:
a) take a bus across town (EXCITING!! like a field trip every week!)
b) go to their differently distinguished art classes, because art is just not a GIANT GRAB BAG OF CRAP -- there are ceramics, music, acting, drawing, painting, etc.
c) the budget is LESS to attend Fillmore because they COVER more than a DCPS little ES can cover with less money for more experience -- DO THE MATH

My kids are in HS and college now, but we brought Fillmore to Ross ES in early 2000's and it was one of the greatest addition to their curriculum, freeing up planning time for teachers and exposure to true artists by students.  Prior to Fillmore they all, grades K through 6, had limited opportunities with a single stressed out art teacher. Don't re-create history, learn from it! Us older parents didn't fight that fight to have it trashed now, kids need a variety of arts to escape their little school houses and constant focus on testing.[/quote]

+1 from a Fillmore-school parent. Especially on the bus thing. I rode to school in the 1980's on a yellow school bus and have always wondered why DCPS refuses to use them for anything but disabled-student transportation (what we used to call "the short bus"). Now my kindergartner gets a huge thrill out of riding a bus every week to a place where the kids get to sing songs and make art.[/quote]

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