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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Old Ross parent here again -- JEEZ.  You parents who think it will be so great for your full time teachers to "collaborate" with an outside art reacher are deluding yourselves.  DCPS teachers have so much on their plates, so little time, to integrate a new outside teacher to take up their space and try and thread lessons in small school houses is --IMPOSSIBLE!!!  Fillmore takes the burden off of the FT teachers, places the adventure in the hands of the students, and for the arts-leaning kids it is invaluable.  For the kids who "hate it", they will [b]learn to put up with behaving on a school bus for 20 minutes a day and finding some escape from their routine of math/english/sports. [/b] Trashing Fillmore is disgraceful, know your history.  Will there be a council hearing on the subject? And Fillmore supporters, have you contacted your local council and ANC?[/quote]

Wow, just, wow. What century are you living in? All people are "arts-leaning."  Math and English (it's called Language Arts nowadays) are incredibly arts- intensive subjects. If by "sports" you mean PE, it is anything but routine and less physical than it should be. 20 minutes on a bus is a shameful waste of the precious little active time in the school day.

Of course there is value in studio arts (aka art for art's sake). There are many excellent arts organizations that can fill that gap without schlepping Reed and Ross kids to Glover Park. Jeez, Ross kids could walk to Garrison or Frances-Stevens. Or are those art teachers not good enough for Ross?[/quote]

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