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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the problem with Fillmore, again?  Or, for the first time?  I missed it.[/quote]

Downtown has always hated it. [/quote]

And I don't like Asparagus.  But, really, what's the problem with Fillmore?  That one day Hardy MIGHT want to increase its enrollment and take over Fillmore's art rooms?  Is that a good reason?  (being a bit snarky here, admittedly([/quote]

Cost. The schools pay what they would pay for art teachers and DCPS has to kick in more to make it work.

Staff accountability. Some say the teachers are contractors to the Fillmore nonprofit; others say they work for DCPS. But regardless they don't report to a single principal and thus it probably messes with the accountability.

Equity. Parents who want to keep Fillmore talk about the excellent arts education they are getting; better, in fact, than what DCPS provides for everyone else.

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To cost: when I was on the LSAT downtown told us Fillmore cost more, we asked them to show us the numbers, they couldn't. In general DCPS budget numbers are a mess but the Fillmore accounting was particularly hinky, a lot of the numbers seemed just fetched from thin air.

To equity: if the program doesn't cost more, why kill something just because it's good? By that logic no one should ever have anything any better than the worst DCPS provides, in any category.

To the accountability and time arguments, all I can say is the principals like Fillmore. If it were a problem they'd be against it. [/quote]

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