I love that CPS has such great schools focused on the Arts. I come from an area where the schools are only focused on the basics and we were lucky that our child was in the only school in the district with a music program. I only hope that it will not be a difficult process to get into one of these schools!
"Focused" is not quite correct. In CPS-land, being a "fine arts" school means that you have at least two and sometimes three teachers in the fine arts -- visual art, music, and drama. For those of us who went to schools where we had a separate art teacher and a separate music teacher, the separate drama teacher is the only innovation. I can't speak for 6-8 gr., but, in K-5, this means that students have two fine-arts classes each week (with one class changing each quarter among the three subjects).Originally Posted by Benji
Don't get me wrong, that is better than nothing, but if you are expecting daily arts instruction, you will be disappointed. That said, at Mayer, we have Spanish language classes once a week as well.
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