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That days everything about how far American has gotten away from public support of arts and culture. People talk about STEM this, STEM that, then binge on Netflix all night and listen to music all day but want to shut down a school that teaches people to makes films and music. Really WTF people?[/quote]

The problem with preparing kids for careers in the arts is that very few people make a living as performers. There may be a lot of money, but just about all of it goes to a very small group of performers. I was just reading about the Screen Actors Guild. There are about 100,000 actors in the SAG, and 80% make less than $5,000 a year from acting. Most of the money is made by the top 50.

At any given time 99% of the kids at Ellington don't have a realistic chance of making a living as a performer. It's not a knock on them or the school, it's just the reality of the numbers. The arts can still enrich their lives, but they're going to need to earn a living some day. Those kids aren't done any favors with an education that short-changes fundamentals. [/quote]

This is about the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. This is a high school not a college ...[/quote]

Exactly -- in high school they should learn high school stuff like math and reading and science.[/quote]
And if the arts classes are what get them to school so they actually attend their math and science classes...?

I’m the art school-attending PP. I started high school hating math and science, but I knew that in order to go to my theatre classes, I had to go to (and succeed in) all of my classes. I wouldn’t have given them half of the effort I did otherwise. And I’m so glad I did. [/quote]

That's GREAT for you.

The data discussed in this thread shows that unfortunately few students in Ellington succeed academically as you do.

The art part becomes an end in itself, substituting the high school education part.[/quote]
Now I never said I “succeeded academically” in math and science. :D I pulled Bs and Cs. But I went to those classes because I knew my theatre classes were coming up. (I now have higher ed degrees in an arts field, Which I also count as academic success.)

I went to school because I was going to be able to study what [i]did[/i] make me feel like a success. And I stayed for the whole school day. Can I still recite the quadratic equation? No. But the same things don’t make everyone successful. And wouldn’t you rather students went to school and felt good about school, or would you rather they completely tune out and skip out on everything?[/quote]

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