Klarinet Archive - Posting 000338.txt from 2002/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl]Benefits of Arts Education
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:43:50 -0400

What you read is the base curriculum. In my area they tend to run schools in
communities where the educational system (infrastructure) is near
bankruptcy.

In any school in truly dire straits arts will suffer; parents are demanding
that their children read books before they read music. For many of these
schools having 45 minutes every other day of arts education is an increase
of an hour and a half a week compared to the prior situation.

Mark C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Wakefield [mailto:tony-w@-----.uk]
> That's already happening (in a sense) in the US - see
> http://www.edisonschools.com/ for one. Whether such private/public sector
> combinations are effective remains to be seen, but it has gotten some
> complacent school districts "off their duff", so to speak.
>

I had a brief look at edison. From 5 to 10 years of age, the arts has 45
minutes every other day. It doesn`t state whether this is twice or thrice a
week. At 11 to 12 there is no arts or music scheduled. There IS scheduled,
career counceling. CAREER COUNCELING - AT AGE 11 AND 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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