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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwood’s new building was designed based on Northwood’s having an academy for musical theater and dance. It’s actually a big part of the design.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do regions 1 and 6 separate theatre and music?  There are so many kids who do both and school musicals benefit from having strong musicians in the school.[/quote]

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Are they gonna fix this? The arts should be at one school.[/quote]

I really hope not, because Einstein actually got the visual arts and the music magnet in this iteration, which it really, really should. In the first iteration Northwood was given all the performing arts magnets. They split them up to try to assuage all the complaints.[/quote]

Then they should just put theater and dance at Einstein too and place all of the engineering programs at Northwood. Splitting each in half is spreading the peanut butter too thin.[/quote]

This would be nice to have Engineering or Stem or preferably both at Northwood as its far easier for the families to get between these two schools than other schools.  One needs to be academic.  Northwood is probably a better choice depending on their leadership.[/quote][/quote]

These programs are silly in reality and all schools should have strong arts and stem.  Einstein is set up to fail without advanced classes and reduced population.  [/quote]

I agree that Einstein could benefit from strengthening its STEM offerings. However, according to the academy coordinator, the Visual and Performing Arts Academy is the largest academy at the school, so the magnet programs should reflect the interests of the majority of its students. Blake and Woodward each have dedicated Visual Arts and Performing Arts programs. I don’t understand why Northwood and Einstein are required to share. VAPA and VAC should serve as the regional arts programs so students have the option to attend Einstein specifically to participate in its arts pathway.[/quote]

It seems like they could move all the arts to Einstein, give humanities to Northwood (leaving other smaller programs at Whitman), and set up region 1 for success.[/quote]

If Northwood will have arts regardless of what you call it put stem there for Northwood and Einstein kids.  [/quote]

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