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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a parent at one of the Fillmore schools.  I'm ready to let it go. I can't in good conscience say it's okay for the city to spend $1100 on my kid's arts education, while spending $450  per capita on kids in the rest of the city. Add to that the mixed reviews, the revolving door of teachers who are not trained in classroom management, and instructional time lost to transit, and I:m ready to try an in school model.

As an aside, the 600 K for busing works out to $8.80 per kid per trip (assuming 1700 kids and 40 weeks of instruction). More expensive than a city bus, but you'd expect to pay more than a city bus for the door to door service and the short term use. That would be SOP for any transit contract. Thus, you could reduce the busing costs, but not by enough.[/quote]

So, you would rather your kid do limited art in homeroom, rather than in a proper arts classroom like every other kid in the City?  Or do you think DCPS is going to build you an addition in order to keep it fair?  Are you really a parent?

FYI:  the bloated bus contract ends this year and would go down to around $250,000 next year, as it should have been all along.[/quote]

Our school doesn't have such dire space constraints. As I noted, though, if the quality of instruction can be improved by an in school model, I am willing to try.[/quote]

Which school are you at?  I was told none of 5 Fillmore schools have spare classrooms in which to begin an arts or music program.  Of course, you understand, you would have to find extra money -- maybe $40,000 or so -- to properly begin an arts and music program where you don't have one?  Where will you get the necessary funds to do that?  Or, you could just support Fillmore, which has a 42-year legacy of building and supporting such programming.  You won't get any of Fillmore's scraps once it ends.[/quote]

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