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[quote=Anonymous]Why do people act like Fillmore is the Kennedy Center? Seriously. Good arts educators can work pretty much anywhere. Great teachers can integrate arts into the overall curriculum and leverage time with general classroom teachers and other specials. Think dance as part of PE and science unit on motion. Music woven into poetry and reading. There are myriad ways to do this well.

The Fillmore crowd seems to be conflating art-infused education with arts enrichment or "art for arts' sake." It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. But there is absolutely no justification for busing the little ones from Marie Reed and Ross over two miles each way once a week.

If Fillmore staff and their resources are so great, and if Ward 2 schools are so crowded, then shouldn't the Fillmore program be moved to a newer building in a less crowded school like...Marie Reed post renovation?

Stoddert, Key, and Hyde-Addison parents, is Fillmore so great that you'd be willing to have your kids sent over to Ward 1 once a week for the best arts education? Or is Fillmore so great because it's in your backyard, inside your destination middle school?

The principals are responsible for the budget and staffing. If they really want Fillmore, they are the ones who will fight for it. Each year there are fewer and fewer schools in Fillmore. 
That's a [b]good [/b]thing for kids. They shouldn't have to be bused around for arts education that's completely from their day-to-day learning.

Nobody can dispute Fillmore's value to thousands of students in the past. But a storied history of "art for art's sake" alone does not justify the Fillmore model in this century.

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