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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Half hour private piano lessons run around $35. That's close to $2000 if you have a lesson every week and it's only for 1/2 hour a time.  Kumon I think runs around the same amount every week. I don't get why people think swimming is so much more expensive or that others don't invest in the arts. Swimming makes you fit and keeps you healthy. Neither art nor math really does anything for your body.  I do not think Kumon math or Math Counts is really a life safety skill either. School is all about sitting all day and using your brain. Shouldn't we use the rest of our bodies too? I remember listening to one podcast where college professors were described as only living in their heads.[/quote]

If you read the previous posts carefully, they do not say that individual parents or families "don't invest in the arts."  Other posters have simply made the point that there is not another youth organization (for academics, the arts, or even other sports) with membership 300,844+ strong, whose members are willing to pay relatively large annual fees for training, instruction, clubs, pools, and coaches which most benefit the sport's best athletes.

Other posters have lamented the fact there is no similar national (not individual families) base of support in great numbers to subsidize programs for our best students, our most talented musicians, or our great young artists. [/quote]

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