Keeping the Arts & Music alive within CCSD

My friend Pierce Egerton, a personal injury attorney in Greensboro, NC, posted a link to an arts blog titled Arts Education Network (on the Web at http://blog.artsusa.org/).

It is timely for a couple of reasons...one, while blogging about public education in Greensboro for my former blog site, Guilford School Watch, I covered the issue of threatened arts/music education cuts. And two, the issue is taking center stage here in Clark County.

At Durango High School, where cuts in arts and music classes were threatened due to an enrollment shortfall, students and staff were elated to hear those cuts would not occur. True music to their ears.

See R-J story here.

An excerpt:

An announcement made Tuesday during the last period at Durango High School was music to the ears of choir students.

Principal Mark Gums told the school that he managed to retain three teachers and save classes in choral music, art and woodworking that were on their way to being eliminated or reduced.

Good for them. I'm a big advocate for keeping the arts and music alive in our schools. It is important to have our children well-rounded.

E.C. :)